Rare French ceramics coming to LACMA and Huntington
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It was announced Thursday that the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have received gifts of rare French ceramics from the collection of Pasadena art patron MaryLou Boone.
Boone has given the Huntington and LACMA a group of faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and soft-paste porcelain made between 1600 and 1900. The Huntington received 27 objects and LACMA 26. The decorative items, which were selected to complement each institution’s collection, includes teapots, potpourris, tabletop sculptures, inkwells, sugar casters, large plates, pitchers, tureens and cups and saucers. Huntington curator Catherine Hess said in a statement that the works ‘help tell the story of how people lived in France at that time.’
The pieces will go on view at the Huntington in fall 2011 in a new room that will be installed with paintings, sculpture and decorative art. LACMA will host an exhibition in October 2012.
-- Lisa Boone
Photos, from left: A faience water pitcher, circa 1690, from Rouen, France. Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A faience teapot, circa 1750, from the Paul Hannong factory in Strasbourg, France. Credit: Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
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