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Antonin Boullemier: a ceramic and paper archive of work by the Minton artist

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Antonin Boullemier: a ceramic and paper archive of work by the Minton artist

Comprising two plates, a plaque and six watercolours, the Minton plates painted with Flower Fairies, 22.7cm diam, globe marks and year codes for 1896, the rectangular Minton porcelain plaque painted with two Children in Louis XV costume, 18.4cm x 13cm, the watercolours each painted with an individual figure study in the French taste, roughly 29cm and 31cm, all signed A Boullemier, the paintings and plaque unframed (9)

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Antonin Hilaire Boullemier (1839-1900) was the son of a Sevres artist who studied painting and music in Paris. Following the Siege of Paris in which he was involved, Antonin fled to England, joining Minton in 1872. He became one of Minton's highest-paid artists, earning £400 a year. During the 1890s following a disagreement with Leon Arnoux, Boullemier chose a freelance path, working for Minton and other Staffordshire makers while also producing his distinctive watercolours and figure-paintings on tiles. For more details see David Manchip, Encyclopaedia of British Ceramic Painters (2008), pp.66-67.

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