3-011-913 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Specimens of M. Champfleury's collection of pottery, illustrative of the French Revolution, 1864. '1. The portrait of Necker:...L'Espoir et le Soutien de la France...on a milk-pot. 2. A porte-bouquet:...Notre union fait notre force. 3. Holy-water vase...[probably]...belonged to...[an] unsworn priest. 4. An inkstand...On a drawer is the inscription, Guerre aux tyrans; on the left-hand side, Unité et indivisibilité de la République; on the right-hand side, Paix aux Chaumières. 5. A plate with the inscription, Jeanne Charbonnier...The goddess is represented carrying a yellow cap on the end of a pike. 6. A fountain...[with] emblems of the Three Estates; a spade (agriculture, or the People), a sword (the army, or the Nobility), and a crozier (the Church). 7. plate...with the inscription, Nous jouons de malheur. 8. shaving-dish:...a dignitary of the Church giving his hand to a noble...9. crockery...[inscribed] Aux manes de Mirabeau, la patrie reconnaissante. 10. "Ah! ça ira! which...was sung gaily and joyfully...11. Je suis invincible (a lion crouching near...a tree of Liberty) [on a]...great pitcher. 12. Vivre libre, ou mourir. The capture of the Bastille, in 1789...was so unexpected that a large number of ceramic [souvenirs were produced]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.