page_title: Musée de la Faïence de Marseille
section_title: Faience of Marseille
hierarchical_section_title: Musée de la Faïence de Marseille / Faience of Marseille
caption_attribution_description: Marseille, musée de la faïence situé 157 avenue de montredon, vue intérieure (faïences du XVIIIème siècle)
context_page_description: The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille is a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery.
  It opened to the public in June 1995 in the Château Pastré at 157, avenue de Montredon 13008 Marseille.
  It is planned to transfer the faience museum to the Château Borély, which will also hold the planned Museum of Decorative Arts and Fashion,
  as part of preparations for Marseille becoming the European cultural capital in 2013.
  The museum is housed in the magnificent nineteenth century building named after its former owner Eugène Pastré.
  The chateau is at the end of a long avenue in the 120 hectares Campagne Pastré park, owned by the city of Marseille.
context_section_description: There are records of pottery being made in Marseille from the sixteenth century.
  In 1526 Claude Forbin, lord of Gardanne, started a faïence works with an Italian, Jean Angeli  from Offida.
  They established the pottery in one of the suburbs of Marselle, at Saint-Marcel, and engaged a Spaniard named Sanchez from Lérida to run the operation. 
  In the 1520s the skilled worker Bruno Catani, son of the Milanese Antoine Catani who had trained him in Marseille, 
  established himself in the suburb of Aubagne.
  He produced a wide variety of pottery products.  Two other potters, Antoine Franc from Manosque and Laurent Borelli from Grimaud, rented space in his factory and use of the oven on condition that they did not make competing products. In 1535 Jean Angeli had joined them.   Nothing is known of the details of their production.
  A potter named Antoine Cléricy is named as making fine glasswork and pottery in 1641 at the chateau of Fontainbleau.
  He seems to have been the ancestor of the Clerissy dynasty of potters in Marseilles.
  After this first production of little importance, the resurgence of the art of pottery in Marseille is the work of an influential and wealthy personage, Joseph Fabre (1634-1717) former consul, financier, owner of a silk factory and banker of the Duke of Savoy. 
  In 1675 he brought Joseph Clérissy from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) and installed him in his property of Saint-Jean du Désert, launching the manufacture of faïence in Marseille. This industry grew from the end of the seventeenth century and reached its full development in the second half of the eighteenth century between 1750 and the French Revolution.  The increase in demand was due to population growth and the rise of a middle class looking for luxuries. 
  Refinement of the domestic environment and adoption of more formal dining manners stimulated development of high-quality products.
  By 1787, on the eve of the revolution, there were nine manufacturers of enameled faience: Agenl and Sauze, Antoine Bonnefoy, Boyer, Fauchier, Fesquet, Ferrin and Abellard, Joseph-Gaspard Robert. Honoré Savy and Jean-Baptiste Viry.
caption: Interior of the museum
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