Vase of the de Bruyn earthenware factory in Fives-Lille

In 1889 antoine-gustave de bruyn, whose family was originally from leuven, belgium, was awarded a medal at the universal exhibition in paris. Around 1900, it is the "belle époque" for this large vase characteristic of the turn of the century, between rococo and art nouveau. At the "musée de la barbotine" (barbotine.free.f), we can read: in lille-fives at the beginning of the twentieth century, the de bruyn earthenware factory employed 150 workers. It had up to 400 at the dawn of the first world war. Sold in the 1950s, the earthenware factory continued to produce before being definitively closed in 1962.