BORDEAUX. MANUFACTURE JULES VIEILLARD & Cie Fine earthenware tea and coffee set with decorations attributed to Amédée de Caranza, comprising : A covered teapot and coffee pot, a covered milk jug, a covered sugar bowl, twelve cups and eleven saucers with polychrome Japanese decoration of characters, birds, fish and plants on a pale yellow background. The handles and spouts are in the shape of bamboo, and the conical handles of the lids are turquoise. The coffee pot is decorated on one side with a Chinese woman in a basket suspended from a rock face and on the other with a musician seated on a rock, surrounded by swallows. H: 17.5cm (A small crack and a chip on the lid) The teapot decorated on one side with a man riding a carp and on the other with a man in kimono seen from behind. H: 13 cm (a small crack) The sugar bowl decorated with a sinner on one side and a seated man smoking in a landscape with cherry trees and bamboo. H : 10 cm The milk jug decorated with a seated man playing the Shamisen on one side and a seated scholar on the other. H : 8,5 cm The cups are decorated with flowers and foliage H: 4.5 cm D: 9.5 cm (two with hair) The saucers are decorated with active figures dressed in kimonos in exotic landscapes with flowering trees, bamboo and reeds. D: 13.5 cm AJ Marks: Japanese cartouches in underglaze printing and painted marks on the back of each piece. 19th century Bibliography: J du Pasquier. J. Vieillard & Cie. Histoire de la faïence fine de Bordeaux. From Anglomania to the Orientalist dream. Éd. Sté Amis du Musée national de céramique de Sèvres. 2015 Page 129.