CREIL-MONTEREAU. Mark CREIL LM and Co MONTEREAU.MODEL E. ROUSSEAU in PARIS.1866/1875. Important part of service of table named " service Rousseau " in fine earthenware of 88 pieces. Model created in 1866 by Eugene Rousseau and Felix Bracquemond, with polychrome decoration printed from etchings and painted under cover, in the Japanese style of plants, herbs, insects, birds, fish, mollusks and crustaceans, the edges outlined with blue combed, consisting of -sixty dinner plates (D : 24 cm), sixteen soup plates, three round dishes (two of D 27 cm and one of 30 cm) a large deep dish D: 32 cm, four ravioli L: 20cm, a sauceboat (L: 27 H 11 cm), A round covered terrine D: 20 cm, a body of oval terrine, a body of round terrine. (Some chips, piece glued to a plate, cracks to two plates and two dishes.) In 1856, Felix BRACQUEMOND, ceramist but above all engraver, discovered the collection of prints by HOKUSAI, published in 1814 under the title "Hokusai manga", a pictorial genre known in JAPAN as "Kachô-ga" composed of paintings of flowers, birds, insects, crustaceans and fishes and which bears the name "Hokusai manga" in Japan. Seduced by these themes, BRACQUEMOND became the initiator of the vogue of Japonism in France. In 1866, he receives an order from François Eugène ROUSSEAU, installed in rue coquillière in Paris, "composer and editor of forms and models for ceramics and glassware" for a table service which will have to be original and innovative in order to be presented at the World Fair of 1867.For this service, Bracquemond himself drew and engraved an infinite number of plates which convinced Rousseau who then ordered the Manufacture LEBEUF MILLIET ET CIE installed in CREIL ET MONTEREAU to produce this service, which was a huge success at the 1867 World's Fair and was awarded several medals. Each element of the service is decorated with a different motif inspired by Japanese prints: birds, fish, shellfish, plants and insects. The decoration is almost always presented in a ternary composition. Bibliography : L. d'Albis : " the beginnings of ceramic Japonism in France from Bracquemond to Chapelet ", Sèvres, n° 7, 1998, pp. 21-31. J.P. Bouillon, C. Meslin-Perrier, Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs, du japonisme à l'art nouveau, exhibition catalog, 2005 RMN exhibition. -Félix BRACQUEMOND 1833/1914 Engraver and ceramist. NEUMANN Foundation ; Editions d'art SOMOGY 2003