LUNEVILLE FAIENCE

tin-glazed earthenware, faience fine, and a kind of unglazed faience fine produced from 1723 at Lunville, France. The first factory, established by Jacques Chambrette, became the Manufacture Royale du Roi de Pologne (Royal Factory of the King of Poland) in 1749, when the exiled king Stanislaw I (Louis XV's father-in-law) became duke of Lorraine and settled in the town. Early Lunville faience is painted in underglaze colourseither polychrome or blue monochrome (camaeu). Its decoration resembles that of Japanese wares and Rouen faience. Later Lunville faience is painted in overglaze coloursin polychrome or green camaeuand is reminiscent of Strasbourg faience. But the Chinese figures on Lunville are Chinois distingus (refined Chinese gentlemen), while on Strasbourg they are simple folk such as fishermen. Lunville produced large faience dogs and lions that were used as garden ornaments. From about 1755, Paul-Louis Cyffl modeled figures in a body called terre de pipe (sometimes called terre-de-Lorraine), a soft white earthenware that is a kind of unglazed faience fine with a superficial resemblance to biscuit, or unglazed, porcelain. The Lunville factory also made faience fine, some of which is in the Rococo style.