French Antique Transferware Compote Boulenger Terre de Fer Blue Floral 0711262

French antique transferware compote

A piédouche -- a French pedestal compote -- produced by the celebrated Boulenger manufactory in their terre de fer body, the robust French ironstone that rivaled English ironstone in quality and durability throughout the late nineteenth century. The wide, gently flared bowl rises on a graceful trumpet foot, its cream-white ground printed in a layered botanical design of clematis, wisteria, hydrangea and trailing ivy rendered in deep blue-black ink. This is a French antique transferware compote in the classic blue-and-white palette that has never gone out of fashion on either side of the Atlantic.

Boulenger, based in Choisy-le-Roi near Paris, was one of the most prolific and technically accomplished producers of transferware ceramics in France, and pieces from this house are actively sought by collectors of French country and farmhouse ceramics. The pattern wraps continuously from the interior of the bowl down the pedestal and across the foot, giving the piece a confident, all-over graphic presence. On a kitchen shelf, a dining table or a marble-topped sideboard, it works equally well holding fruit, displayed alone or stacked in a collection of blue-and-white antiques.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light crazing is visible throughout the glaze, and there is a small glaze loss to the underside of the rim where the bowl meets the pedestal, visible in the photos.

Approx. 8.7 in wide x 3.9 in high (22 x 10 cm).

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