The city of Nevers, Nièvre, now in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France, was a centre for manufacturing faience, or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Production of Nevers faience then gradually died down to a single factory, before a revival in the 1880s. In 2017, there were still two potteries making it in the city, after a third had closed. However the quality and prestige of the wares has gradually declined, from a fashionable luxury product for the court, to a traditional regional speciality using styles derived from the past.
Mustard and blue solid-body wares, 1650–80, with Turkish-inspired birds and flowers.
Nevers dish in the istoriato style, with the Triumph of Julius Caesar, very loosely after Mantegna, 1600–1630
17th-century plate with genteel party in a European-style landscape. The border has birds, flowers and a rabbit, all at the same size.
faience patriotique of the French Revolution. An aristocrat and bishop: "Unhappiness re-unites us", 1791.
Nevers is a town and the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is 260 km (160 mi) south-southeast of Paris.
Panoramic view of Nevers, France
The Ducal Palace of Nevers, in France
The incorrupt body of Saint Bernadette, seer of Our Lady of Lourdes apparitions
