Pair of Chinese plates, Jemmapes faiencerie, diameter: 23cm The factory began its activity in June 1847. Its aim was "the manufacture in Belgium of English faience and the sale of the products manufactured". A common decoration is that obtained by printing in black, blue, green, pink or purple representing war scenes from the empire or scenes with rural subjects, Chinese decoration, biblical subjects, flowers and fruits, hunts, etc. Some plates of this type are colored. A particular decoration in Jemappes was even created: "Gros-Bouquet": blue melted into the enamel. The decoration is done by hand or by printing on skin paper traced on each piece instead of being painted directly. It should be noted the great similarity between pieces decorated in black printing from Jemappes, Septfontaine (Luxembourg) and Nimy). Currently, decorated earthenware is still preserved at the Ceramics Museum in Mons. N.B. Fine earthenware called English, pipe clay, iron clay or pebbles; white paste, fine, dense and sonorous texture, "covered", crystalline, colorless and translucent, lead-based. 19th century condition: in good condition, one of the plates has a visible crack on the back.