MANUFACTURE JULES VIEILLARD & Cie À BORDEAUX
"Nella" Service Composed of about 145 pieces, with polychrome decoration of flowering stems, birds, insects and butterflies including dishes, plates, dessert plates, set plates, compote dishes, trivets, trivets, mustard pot, sugar bowl, jug and its basin, covered box, vegetable dish, sauceboat. Marked: JVB and Nella.
Late 19th century.
This "Nella" service, made at Vieillard's in the 1870s and 1880s, with its off-centre decoration of flowering branches, birds and insects, is halfway in the Japanese vein and naturalism inherited from 18th century porcelain.