Asparagus Plate wicker style blue and yellow

The french earthenware Manufacture d’Orchies was created in 1879 by L’Herminé near the Belgia border, where many other earthenware firms were located since the 18th century, such as the Manufacture du Moulin-des-Loups in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. The Manufacture d’Orchies created many decorative pieces enhanced with vivid colors. The firm was absorbed by Moulin-des-Loups Hamage in 1923 and despite a rebound in the 1950s, the company definitively closed its doors in the 1980s.

Plate reproduced in Maryse Botero, Artichauts et Asperges en barbotine, Paris, Massin, Paris, p.96.