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Gourd of Nevers<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Gourd of Nevers
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°07

Gourd of Nevers

XVIIth century

November's "Object of the Month" is devoted to the restoration of an earthenware gourd from Nevers, an important production centre in Northern France in the 17th and 18th centuries. This earthenware is characterised by its so-called "grand feu" decorations (a single high-temperature firing to fix the glaze and the colours at the same time), which are first treated in cameos of blues, then in polychromy (blue, yellow, yellow-orange and brown).
A restoration campaign of the gourd, launched in 2007, allowed to recover the characteristics of this production by eliminating the traces of a previous repairing intervention which prevented a good reading of the piece...

object n°07 (pdf)

previous objects of the month

object n°35
Gift of Edouard Evrard de Fayolle, 1911 - Inv 4759 & Inv 4760
object n°34
Gift in memory of Léon Gaspart, 1997 - Inv 97.2.7
object n°33
Bequest from Pierre de Giouetti, 1985 - Inv 85.2.8
object n°32
Deposit of Professor Robert Coustet, 2009 - D 2009.4.26
object n°31
Bequest from Georges Périé, 1945 - Inv 78 23
object n°30
Deposit of Professor Robert Coustet, 2014 - D 2014.1.15
object n°29
Bequest of Pierre-Eymeric de Pelleport-Burète , 1932 - Inv 11271
object n°28
Gift of the Cappellini Company, 2013
object n°27
Bequest from Raymond Jeanvrot, 1966 - Inv 66.1.312
object n°26
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1958 - Inv 58.1.10640
object n°25
Gift of the Countess of Marcellus, 1955 - Inv 55.4.1 to 55.4.9
object n°24
Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1974 - Inv 74.3.3 / Gift of Edouard Bonie, 1894 - Inv 73.1.88 / Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1993 - Inv 93.3.4 / Gift of the Association of Friends of the Hôtel de Lalande, 1992 - Inv 92.2.6
object n°23
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1958 - Inv 58.1.6210
object n°21
Bequest from Daniel Astruc, 1953 - Inv 53.9.14
object n°20
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1963 - Inv 63.8.1 and 63.8.2
object n°19
Old funds of the City of Bordeaux - Inv 75 54
object n°18
Private collection
object n°17
Gift Edition Danese, 1988 - Inv 2013.0.23