MANUFACTURE JULES VIEILLARD & Cie À BORDEAUX
Birds connected to a cherry blossom tree
Two empty pockets, forming pendants, in the shape of a scallop shell. Earthenware proofs, the (different) decorations made with polychrome enamels. One marked with the stamp of the factory (ref. Du Pasquier 25) and the reference D 918, the other marked only with the reference 939 on the reverse.
L.: 22 cm.

Bibliography: J. Vieillard & Cie, Histoire de la faïencerie fine de Bordeaux, De l'anglomanie à l'orientalisme Jacqueline du Pasquier, Éditions Le Festin, Bordeaux, 2015. Cups of identical shape, but with different decorations, reproduced on pages 82 and 131.