Important Longwy fine earthenware service from the late 19th - Lot 219

Important Longwy fine earthenware service from the late 19th century. Various marks printed in blue in a LONGWY/ CHINOIS escutcheon and recessed in a LONGWY medallion. Of contoured form with blue and white decoration of several types, in the center of a bouquet of flowers, the wing of a wide frieze of trellises and flowering branches, some pieces decorated with a monogram, the handles, grips and feet of the shaped pieces in the form of salamanders and griffins comprising: 1 large surtout in two parts consisting of a bowl on a pedestal supported by four leaning salamanders, the oval base contoured and gadrooned resting on four feet applied with griffins (small stains), 1 soup tureen and 1 monogrammed lid, 3 vegetable dishes and 3 lids (one monogrammed, two with small chips at the heel), 1 jam dish and 1 adherent tray and its lid (monogrammed, small chip at the edge of the tray), 11 pedestal bowls (two sizes, five small ones with monograms including one different monogram, one small bowl with restored foot, two small bowls with stains), 12 tazzae (four monogrammed, one with stains, one with crack, two with small chip on reverse side of rim), 1 bowl (restored), 1 hors d'oeuvre dish with four compartments (stains), 9 fan-shaped compote dishes (one monogrammed, one blue, two stained, one restored), 2 fan-shaped double compotiers (one blue), 1 fan-shaped sauceboat (stains and small chips on rim), 3 double salerons (two with restorations), 7 dishes (two sizes, one monogrammed, three with restored chips, one with cracks, one large stained), 1 fish dish (monogrammed), 4 oval dishes (three sizes ; two monogrammed), 1 umbilical platter (small chip on rim), 34 soup plates (thirteen monogrammed, three restored, two with small chip on rim; all monogrammed: four with small chips on rim and heel, one with crack) 102assiettes (twenty-five monogrammed;seven with chips;for the monogrammed: one with bumps, five with chips), 31 dessert plates (seven monogrammed;six restored, one with crack, nine with chips;the monogrammed: one with crack and one with chip). Length (main dish): 67 - (fish dish): 64 cm Bibl. Hubert de Vinols, Dresser la table, Tout un Art, Montreuil, 2025, ill. pp. 138, 140-145. From 1866, the Longwy factory was run by Fernand and Hipollyte d'Huart. Under their impetus, it underwent numerous transformations and major technical advances, including the start of the production of the famous enamel pieces. It was also during this period that the greatest services were created around numerous themes: Egyptian, Pompadour, Japanese, Primrose, Kioto and Chinese. The objects brought back to Europe from the sack of the Summer Palace in Peking in 1860, whose iconography was to be widely disseminated, were to influence Longwy's production in particular; the rather revealing title of this service, and especially the figurations of "fantastic" animals, could be seen as a perfect illustration of this movement. EGRENURES and SOME SMALL ECLATS