A Scalloped Faience Bowl

An 18th century French faience scalloped bowl decorated with a stylised trellises of flowers and with a central figure in the typical style of Quimper pottery. The underside had-written with "Lisieux". Area of Quimper, Brittany, circa 1780.

When a Quimper piece is signed or stamped "Lisieux" (or "Normand"), it means the factory decorated that particular item with Normandy's cultural motifs.  Rather than the classic Breton peasant ("petit breton") in blue and yellow, these pieces depict individuals dressed in traditional 18th or 19th-century Norman regional attire specific to the Lisieux or Calvados region.