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END OF 18TH CARAMEL ROASTER FOR COOKING RECIPES WITH MEAT. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE BOTTOM, THIS POTTERY HAD NO PROBLEM WITH STANDING HEAT IN THE HEATING SOURCE. ALSO USED FOR POTATO DISHES. ALL JUUICE FROM MEAT WAS SAVED IN A POTERIE IN THE KITCHEN FOR USE THE NEXT DAY. GLAZE WAS FORTIFIED WITH AQUIFOIX SO THAT IT DID NOT CRACK. OVOID FORM
14.5 X POTERIE CENTERS WERE SO CONSISTENT AND KNOWN FOR THEIR SUPERIOR WORK, THAT THE FORMS AND GLAZE COULD BE IDENTIFIED IN TWO SECONDS.
ST JEAN DE FOS IS ONE OF THESE POTERIE CENTERS
ST JEAN DE FOS IS CONSIDERED AN EXEMPLARY CENTER THAT ATTRACTED SOME OF THE BEST POTTERS. YOU CAN ALWAYS RECOGNIZE A CONFIT POT, CRUCHES, HANDLESS POTS AND JARS HEADED FOR KITCHENS WHERE THEY WERE USED FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. THE ST JEAN DE FOS CARAFE IS A HALLMARK CREATION ATTRIBUTED TO ST JEAN DE FOS.
THIS COLOR FOUND ALONG WITH THE VARIETY OF POTERIES IS ALSO UNIQUE TO St JEAN DE FOS OFFER A KITCHEN POT/JAR THAT WAS USED FOR CONFIT. THESE POTS HELDJUICES AND FAT DRAINED FROM MEAT ROASTING IN THE OVEN. IT HAS THE CREAM GAZE THAT EITHER VERED TOWARDS VERY PALE YELLOW OR THE CREAM WITH A HUE HERE OR THERE OF PALE YELLOW. THE FORM HAD A NORMAL SIZE RIM SIZE BUT THE CENTER WAS STOUT AND OUT OF PORTION TO THE BOTTOM WHICH PULLED IN AND SAT ON A BASE. THIS CONFIT POT WAS ALWAYS GLAZED IN THE THICK CREAM COLOR OF ST. JEAN AS WELL AS THE TRANSPARENT ENGOBE COVERING THE POTERIE BEFORE THE COLORED GLAZE. THIS WAS ALSO TO MAKE IT STRONG AS IT SAT NEAR THE HEAT. THIS CONFIT POT IS VERY OLD. MID-18THC.
THERE IS NOT ONE HAIRLINE FRACTURE, NO PIECES MISSING AROUND THE RIM , JUST WEAR AND TEAR. THE GLAZE HAS CRACKLE LINES BUT THAT IS ALL THEY ARE. UNDOUBTABLY FROM THE HEAT BUT THEY ARE NOT CRACKS!!!!!!
MID-18THC
ST JEAN DE FOS
6.5 H
7 INCHES AT WIDEST
A SELLER WITH LIMITED KNOWLEDGE TALKING OF THE HISTORY OF THE LANG CRUCHE HAS NO IDEA.
THIS IS WHAT MY \'MAITRE\' TAUGHT ME OVER THE YEARS IN FRANCE. THERE IS ALWAYS A BUT........
Most OF THE CONFIT POT JARS WITHOUT HANDLES WERE USED FOR HOLDING MUSTARD AND OCCASIONALLY, JAM CONSERVES. THEY WERE MADE THROUGH LANGUEDOC AND PROVENCE. THEY WERE GLAZED FROM THE TOP TO THE CENTER OF THE HANDLESS CONFIT POT TO FEND OFF VERMIN. . THE JAR/POT OFFERED HERE HAS MINOR RIM WEAR BUT OTHERWISE IN PERFECT CONDITION. THE GLAZE COLOR, DIFFERENT HUES OF YELLOW-MUSTARD ARE STUNNING. 5 X JUST UNDER 5. MADE THROUGHOUT THE MID - LATE 19THC. WHEN GLASS PRODUCTION WAS USED FOR FOOD PRODUCTS STARTING AROUND 1900S-1910, THE CONFIT JAR SLOWLY WANED.
ELIAS TRAY
JAUNES ET VERRTES; FRENCH ANTIQUE POTTERTY
