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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°16
Gift of the Viscount of Pelleport-Burète, 1927 - Inv 1085
object n°15
Gift of Eulalie Gouzenne, 1959 - Inv 59.7.3
object n°14
Gift of the Association of Friends of the Hôtel de Lalande, 1991 - Inv 91.2.6
object n°13
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1975 - Inv 75.3.10
object n°12
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1958 - Inv 58.1.11 350
object n°11
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1959 - Inv 59.3.1
object n°10
Fnac deposit, 2009 - Inv D 2009.3.6
object n°09
Purchase from the City of Bordeaux, 1986 - Inv 86.3.1 & 86.3.2
object n°08
Gift of Viscount and Viscountess Alain de Baritault du Carpia, 2012 - Inv 2012.5.1 & 2012.5.2
object n°07
XVIIth century
object n°06
1767
object n°05
XVIIe siècle
object n°04
Legs d'André Lataillade, 1969 - Inv 69.3.198 & 69.3.199
object n°01
CAPC depot