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FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND Collection of 17 creamware ceramic plates.
Each 1866-75. Each approximately 250 mm; 10 inches (diameter). Each stamped with the name of the retailer, Eugêne Rousseau, Paris, verso.
An accomplished Parisian painter-printmaker, and leading figure in the French etching revival of the late 19th-century, Bracquemond was one of the first Europeans to acquire a copy of famed Japanese master Hokusai's Manga, 1813, a thirteen-volume collection of sketchbooks filled with drawings. These became a highly regarded source for Japanese motifs in European decorative and fine arts.
A self-taught printmaker, Bracquemond learned ceramic enamel decoration while working with Théodore Deck; he later became the director of Charles Haviland's Auteuil studio in Paris from 1873 to 1880. In addition to ceramics, Bracquemond designed furniture, gold and silver jewelry, bookbindings and tapestry.
