Antique French Paris porcelain covered cream pots service. Comprising of a beautiful tray and six lidded pots pots de creme, used to serve a custard style dessert or chocolate pudding. Each is hand painted with chinoiserie scenes that evoke daily life in 18th-century China with portraits depicting merchants and their wares. Double handles and lids with gilt painted finials. The tray with a large scene beautifully hand painted in vibrant colors. The bases signed Delvaux Paris. Circa early 1900s. In overall good antique condition with general wear commensurate with age and signs of use, wear present to the gold painted accents mostly on the handles and finials, there is an edge chip to the base of one of the pots (the pot portraying the tea merchant).
The tray measures 11 3/4" x 8 1/2" x 5/8" height. The pots stand 4 1/8" height x 3 3/4" wide across the handles x 2 3/8" diameter.
Delvaux was a prestigious retail store located at 18 rue Royale in Paris. Founded in the 1880s, it specializes in the sale of exclusive art objects: decorated glass, earthenware, porcelain and services from Haviland, Montigny le Roi, Baccarat, Choisy le Roi, Fontainebleau, Sèvres, Clichy, etc. The works of famous artists were exhibited and sold: Clément Massier, Félix Optat Milet, Jean Mayodon, Albert Dammouse, Jean Sala, Charles Schneider. Between 1920 and 1930, Delvaux distributed their own created vases. A decoration workshop with renown artists was set up in the store.