ftERAMIC STUDIO 
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No. 35. Soup tun 
XVIII. century. Fron 
1887-1888. Paris. 
Revue Jes Arts Decoratifs 
No. 34. Ewer in pewter, time of Louis XVI. 
for wares of bright coloring, easily kept clean, and adapted 
to all kinds of uses. 
Pewterers were forced to limit their production to 
articles which could not well be made of other substances. 
There was a slight revival of their industry when, imitat- 
ing the example of Louis XIV., French nobles sent their 
gold and silver to be melted, in order .to defray the ex- 
penses of the War of the Spanish Succession. The va- 
cancies made on the dressers by the disappearance of fine 
pieces of gold and silver, had to be filled, but even then 
the use of pottery had become so general that the hopes 
of pewterers were not realized. 
After the Louis XIV. period, decorators, in search of 
novelty, created a new style, showing a peculiar scroll 
ornamentation, which has been called Louis XV. All 
branches of decorative art followed the new departure, 
and the style developed everywhere with astonishing 
rapidity. The pewterers, who were struggling for exist- 
ence, joined the general movement, and prudently attempt- 
ed to adapt their work to the taste of the day. They 
borrowed from Gouthiere, Germain, Meissonnier, and 
No. 37. Louis XV. style. XVIII, century, pewter. Modern interpretation. Composition and execution by J. Brateau 
