Fall & Winter 2013 HHaavviillaanndd Volume 22, Nos. 3 & 4 QuA Pubalication of thre Havilandt Collecetors International Floundatiy on Crème Faïence Haviland Collectors International Foundation HCIF is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to study and preserve the products made by the early Haviland china companies in France and America. HCIF is incorporated in the State of Missouri. In this issue Membership Membership in HCIF is open to all interested persons. A single household membership is $50. Membership applications should be A Worthy Experiment: accompanied by one-year dues (July1 –June 30). Checks should be made payable to HCIF and mailed to HCIF, P. O. Box 5163, Buffalo Grove, IL Haviland & Co. Crème Faïence . 4 60089. Applications received prior to April 1 will be considered to be for the current year and those applications will be mailed all back newsletters for that year. Applications received April 1 and after will be accepted for Fish Platters, Plates and Sets . 12 the next membership year, which begins July 1. Membership does not imply endorsement by HCIF. Officers for 2013-14 The Beginning of Porcelain President, Fred Daniels First Vice President, Alice Pricer in Limoges, France . 14 Second Vice President, Paul Robertson Treasurer, Perry Haviland Corresponding/Membership Secretary, Arthur Levin The Haviland Figural Recording Secretary, Jackie Doctor Board of Directors Humidors . 18 The Board of Directors is elected by the membership. Directors serve without compensation. Board members and terms of office are as follows: HCIF Grand Tour 2013: 2011-2014 2012-2015 2013-2016 Donna Hafer Fred Daniels Jackie Doctor Mary Ann Harrigan Celeste Graham Perry Haviland Paris, Limoges, & Loire Valley . 20 Sandra Kramer Bonnie Kline Arthur Levin Alice Pricer Richard Pryor Paul Ohland Paul Robertson William Seward Carolyn Quinlan Butter Pats . 28 Directors Emeritus: Grace Graves, Robert Rorex, Wallace J. Tomasini Contact Information And There It Was . 30 Fred Daniels, President Arthur Levin, Membership 2741 Diamond Street P. O. Box 5163 San Francisco, CA 94131 Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 On the cover: Monumental crème faïence gourd-shaped vase, unsigned. The base is marked 415-452-9811 847-830-6988 with an incised H&Co/L, as well as the handwritten incised mold number “103.” The piece [email protected] [email protected] is decorated with impressionistic pink flowers, vines, and green leaves (possibly Mandevilla) Perry Haviland, Treasurer Wallace J. Tomasini, Archivist that climb across the vase, done in heavily applied slip. This large vase measures 36,00 cm 27 Embarcadero Cove 610 Beldon Avenue tall by 35,50 cm wide." Oakland, CA 94606 Iowa City, IA 52246 510-532-6996 319-338-1641 [email protected] Robert Rorex, Scholarship Chair 610 Beldon Avenue Iowa City, IA 52246 319-351-0917 By the numbers The HCIF Quarterly is published in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Copyright 2013 by Haviland Collectors International Foundation. All rights reserved. Permission to use any material in the Quarterly must be HCIF Assets obtained in writing from HCIF. Back issues of the Quarterly are available Treasurer’s General Fund $ 31,975.47 from HCIF Publications. Volumes 1 –4, $2.00 each; Volumes 5 –present, Report $4.00 each plus postage. Perry Haviland, Treasurer HCIF Total Equity $ 31,975.47 Editorial Staff Karen Levin, Editor Balances as of HCIEF Assets Arthur Levin, Co-editor November 30, 2013 Archives Fund $ 82.00 Nora Travis, Co-editor Dannielle Stark, Graphic Designer PayPal 303.43 General Fund 13,390.45 HCIF Website: www.havilandcollectors.com / www.hcif.org HCIEF Scholarship Fund 2,241.22 Articles, Quarterly Correspondence, and Distribution Memorial Funds 21,657.85 Questions should be directed to: Karen Levin, Quarterly Editor 42 Cedar Drive HCIEF Cash $ 37,674.95 Wheeling, IL 60090 [email protected] Inventory Address Changes should be addressed to: Publications $ 24,598.86 Arthur Levin P. O. Box 5163 HCIEF Total Equity $ 62,273.81 Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 [email protected] 2 Haviland Quarterly Fall & Winter 2013 From the President Another year comes to a close and gives patterns. Sharing our enthusiasm always us time to plan dinners on Haviland china, brings many happy returns! recall those great finds from the conference One of the benefits of the Quarterly is or on eBay, and look back at all of the good that we get to join in on Haviland searches things that happened since 2012. And for even though we could not be there in our organization, it was a banner year. Not person. This fall, Arthur and Karen Levin least among the accomplishments, Karen led a spectacular tour including the high- Levin rekindled our Facebook presence and lights of Paris and Limoges, and of the now every day I get a report of new people Haviland factory itself. Taking a trip to the “liking” us, asking questions about their source of Haviland goes a long way towards inherited Haviland, and in some cases, understanding so much about the dishware joining our organization. They come from and artistic creations that we have come to all walks of life, and we all have the love of love and collect. You can imagine what the Haviland in common. I hope we can do city of Limoges was like all those many years more with this in the coming year. ago, with the artists and their apprentices This very issue represents an advance- working at the kilns to create these beautiful ment, in that we are now publishing a patterns. Then, huge fires were lit under more exciting regional meetings and printed copy only once a year. For much of beehive shaped kilns, and the heat was Haviland happenings. I’d like the board to our twenty-five year history, most of our controlled with bellows and adding more explore more social media options, and our budget went towards creating, printing and fuel. So many pieces were lost when the fire board meeting in Chicago will focus on how mailing the newsletter every quarter. did not allow the dishes to fire properly. best to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Although beautiful and certainly one of the Some colors at the hottest point of the kiln first HCIF conference. nicer collector publications, the board might be spoiled, and some at the bottom All of your ideas on how we can improve thought that the money spent could be not fully realized. But I digress. and grow are welcome, so please contact me better applied elsewhere. It took almost two Today, pieces flow into long linear gas- or any board member and we’ll be sure to years to work out a solution that seemed fired kilns on conveyor belts, and bake or put them on the agenda for our upcoming satisfactory, and now we print one annual a fuse with remarkable consistency, coming March board meetings. year with all of that year’s issues in one out the other end as a result of the perfect It is my pleasure to wish each and every bound magazine published around the refinement of the process. But some one of you a wonderful holiday season and a holidays. In the interim, Quarterly issues are treasured techniques, like hand polishing or healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year. still delivered to the membership in burnishing the gold, remain to be completed — Fred Daniels electronic format, which is excellent in in the age-old tradition, by hand. The tour several ways, including allowing members to visited the kaolin deposits at Marcognac, print the volume at will, search it elec- and spent time with local collectors and tronically, or just read it from their museum representatives, all of which computers. The cost savings will allow us to contributed to a memorable trip that we all increase our activities in several other areas, can now share in as we turn the pages of our including reaching out to new members, 2013 annual edition. Many thanks to Karen sponsoring museum shows, and reworking and Arthur for their perfect organization of our archives to make them more user- the tour, to those that helped entertain and friendly. Research scholarships are being educate our band of travelers in France, to promoted, museums are being contacted to those who took lots of photos for the From the Editors help research or accept Haviland, and new Quarterly, and especially to Anne Morris for The Editorial Committee hopes that venues for Haviland exhibits are eagerly her delightful diary of the trip. everyone enjoys the first printed annual of being sought to continue our successes of Looking back only makes me want to The Haviland Quarterly. the past few years. If you’d like to do your think of the future, and a very fine one we The editors especially want to thank the part, consider writing an article for the have for our organization. We can look committee and members who have Quarterly, suggesting a scholarship for an forward to a wonderful conference in contributed to this year's issues. art or art history student you know, or just Chicago, more scholarly articles in the sending in a few photographs of those Quarterly, more talks at the Palace of the holiday tables displaying your favorite Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and www. havilandcollectors .com 3 A Worthy Experimen t: Haviland & Co. Crème Faïence by Jess Peirson To most collectors, Haviland & Company is best known for the fine porcelain dinnerware that it produced, beginning in the middle of the 19th Century. In addition to this dinnerware, however, the company made exceptional decorative objects in hard and soft paste porcelain and also non-porcelain ceramics. The most often-encountered non-porcelain ceramics are its terra cotta and stoneware (grès) pieces.