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Dihl and Guérhard porcelain (various variant names) was made by the Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory, a
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factory in
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, active from February 25, 1781, until 1828. It was founded by Christophe Dihl (1752-1830) and Antoine Guérhard (d.1793), together with Louise-Françoise-Madeleine Croizé (1751-1831), then married to Guérhard, but married to Dihl from 1797. Dihl was a chemist, and the factory experimented with new colours and finishes.


Patronage

From an early stage, it operated under the protection, though not the ownership, of the child
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He was a ''petit-fils de France'' at birth, and was initially known as Lo ...
, (1775-1844), a nephew of the reigning King
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. This permitted it to operate despite the monopoly on coloured and gilded porcelain the king had given his own
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. The Duke's name was dropped during the French Revolution.


Styles

The wares were of very high quality, in styles similar to Sèvres, following the movement of fashion from
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to the
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. The
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commissioned a service in 1811, with
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s of genre subjects, in gilded Neoclassical settings, a somewhat surprising combination already used by Sèvres before the Revolution. A particular specialty was vases which imitated polished stone or
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in porcelain, some in the slim ''fuseau'' shape and mounted with
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.


Abbreviation

An abbreviated version of the formal name "Manufacture de Monsieur Le Duc d’Angoulême" was sometimes stamped underneath pieces, and a mark of G and A intertwined was used. The factory's original location was rue de Bondy, Paris, but it moved to rue du Temple in 1789.BM File:Bricka. Del ur servis - Hallwylska museet - 87158 (cropped).tif, Tray with birds, 1780s File:Dihl e guerhard, servito con vassoio, 1790 ca. 02.JPG, Cups and tray, c. 1790 File:Dihl e guerhard, contenitore neoclassic, 1790 ca..JPG, Neoclassical covered vessel, c. 1790 File:Vase with scenes of storm on land MET DP335261 (cropped).jpg, Vase with scenes of storm on land, 1790–95 File:Vase with scenes of storm at sea MET DP354630.jpg, Detail, vase with scenes of storm at sea, pair of the last. File:Dinner Plate MET DT3778 (cropped).jpg, Plate from a service designed for the American market, c. 1800-1815 File:Covered tureen MET ADA3382 (cropped).jpg, American Indian from a tureen in the same service. File:Kop med fat. Detalj. Fågel i rött - Hallwylska museet - 87082.tif, Detail of cup, c. 1820


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References

* ''French Porcelain - A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection'', Aileen Dawson, London, 1994, pp. 356–358. * BM
British Museum description
1781 establishments in France 1828 disestablishments in France Porcelain of France Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême