Live auction - Lot 615
Two new kilns for "le grès de Bouffioulx"
[Manuscript map - Mining]
"Plan d'un projet pour la construction de deux fours à cuire des poteries en grais rouge et blanc par Mrs. Jean François Camberlin et frères, propriétaires domiciliés à Boufflioulx.
Aiseau, le 6 novembre 1828"
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, watercolour, laid paper, 63,7 x 97 cm.
Very nice detailed construction plan for two kilns for firing red and white grained pottery. The patron, Jean François Cambrelin (or Camberlin) came from a family of "marchand potiers", pottery merchants from Bouffioulx who were not involved in manufacturing, but only in trading and exporting to mostly Flanders. With 2 seals: "Koningryk der Nederlanden. Buitengewoon te zegelen" and "Formaat-zegel 90 C. Henegouwen".
Ref. Documents & rapports de la Société Royale Paléontologique & Archéologique de l'Arrondissement Judiciaire de Charleroi, vol. 11 (Mons, H. Manceaux, 1881), pp. 51, 58.