2024-7-16

西方人喜欢产自福建德化的白瓷，并称之为中国白：Blanc De Chine。所以德国的梅森英国的鲍瓷器厂，最早仿造的都是德化白瓷。

十八十九世纪生产的这些老窑瓷器已经不好找，而且价钱贵得要死，比起它们的德化父本，一点也都不便宜。尽管梅森的中国白，白璧无瑕，一丝不苟，而鲍的中国白，略有杂质，并且和康熙德化白瓷比，都少了一丝韵味。

最近突然看到一套纽约大都会博物馆托法国瓷器厂仿制的一套梅森白瓷茶杯和茶碟，可以说是仿得惟妙惟肖，如果不看底款，很难辨别真伪：

关键还是人家有一套八件，四个茶杯，四个茶碟：

要说有差别，还是有一点，等上手了才知道就是这梅森生产的茶杯，胎质紧密，放在手里沉甸甸的，而仿品则是轻飘飘的。而且底款之上，有一个厂家特别的印记：

• CH Field Haviland is the decorating mark (trademark, identity) of Robert Haviland and C. Parlon. It will always be stamped on the back of every item as proof of manufacturer, sometimes alongside the pattern name, artists number, designers name, or pattern range (eg Mozart). Robert Haviland and C. Parlon have been using this mark since 1941 when it was purchased the mark from a company called  Gerard, Dufraisseix and Abbot which was derived from the original Charles Field Haviland company. Robert Haviland was the grandson of Charles Field Haviland.

• Charles Field Haviland left America for Limoges in the early 1850s to work originally for his uncle, David Haviland founder of Haviland and Company and rented a porcelain factory in partnership with his father and brother. Subsequently he opened his own decorating studio for porcelain to export items to the US and in 1868 purchased a porcelain manufacturing company. He married the granddaughter of Francois Alluaud and later took control of the Alluaud porcelain factory, one of the oldest Limoges factories. Charles Field retired in 1881 and the company became known as Gerard, Dufraisseix and Morel using the white ware mark GDM. The partners changed around 1890 and the company was subsequently called - Gerard and Dufraisseix and eventually Gerard, Dufraisseix and Abbot (mark GDA). They still trade today as Porcelaine GDA-Royal Limoges but of course the CH Field Haviland mark now belongs to Robert Haviland and C. Parlon。