Column of the porcelain factory in Saint-Gaudens Valentine, decorated with flowers, fruit and gilding, museum quality, from the nineteenth century Napoleon III.
This column is in good condition and is of exceptional quality.
A note: some crashes and bursts see photos with red arrows, this column can be bent a little due to the metal screw which passes through it.
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* The factory Valentine is a porcelain factory founded in the early nineteenth century, following the discovery of a vein of kaolin in the central Pyrenees in Valentine, near Saint-Gaudens in the Haute-Garonne.
Driven by political trouble, old faience of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie founded a factory in Toulouse, at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Since 1820, the pottery "Fouque and Arnoux, earthenware manufacturers, Place Saint-Sernin in Toulouse", in seventy workers and an annex to the Valentine, near Saint-Gaudens, where the two factories will be consolidated in 1835.