The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille was a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery. It opened to the public in June 1995, in Château Pastré at 157, Avenue de Mont
Château Pastré à Marseille
Interior of the museum
Pharmacy vase
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Clérissy faience factories
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The Clérissy faience factories or ateliers Clérissy were the main pottery factories making Moustiers faience, operated by members of the Clérissy family in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in the Alpes-de-Haute
Musée de la Faïence de Marseille
…of contemporary glass and of ceramics from 1950 to the present. The Faience makers from Marseille whose works are exhibited in this museum include Joseph Clérissy, Madeleine Héraud, Louis Leroy, Joseph Fauchier, Veuve Perrin, Honoré Savy, Gaspard Robert and Honoré Bonnefoy. Joseph Clérissy founded the first faience…
Oblong plate with blue grand feu decoration. (Moustiers) Bérain style decoration (around 1720-1730). Musée de Sèvres.
Plate with blue grand feu decoration: The Good Samaritan (Moustiers) painted by Gaspard Viry (1711)
Oblong plate with blue grand feu decoration (Moustiers)