Vegetable soup pot Iron Earth

Soup or vegetable in earthenware iron earth model lavalière 1900. "terre de fer" is a trade name, a label that designates fine earthenware, halfway between earthenware and porcelain: a earthenware mixed with feldspar, a mineral compound, and kaolin, to make it whiter and more resistant. The iron land appeared in france around 1770, and really spread after the industrial revolution to reach its peak around 1900. It will be used by many earthenware factories: in the north (moulin des loups, hamage, saint amand...), in the east... And here in haute saône since the acronym of the anchor is that of the faïencerie de clairefontaine. The acronym "lg" makes it possible to precisely locate the service between 1894 and 1913. (léon graves, who ran the clairefontaine factory at that time).