Bernard" pottery pot holder - Lot 126

Bernard" pottery pot holder Polychrome decoration inspired by the Italian Renaissance: chimeras, foliage and a central cartouche featuring a woman in her toilette, topped with a marquis's crown. Gien mark Third Republic period Height: 23 cm - Diameter: 37.5 cm Antique crack at the bottom of the cachepot Note : Beautiful Gien cache-pot, a pot-bellied model known as "Bernard", richly decorated in the Italian Renaissance style. The chimeras, cartouches and polychrome scrolls testify to the expertise of the Gien workshops at the end of the XIXᵉ century, a period when earthenware excelled in historicist decorations. The piece bears the Gien mark on the reverse and is part of the sought-after production of the Third Republic.