Exhibitions
1861
Auguste Jean showcases his creations for the first time at several exhibitions.
📍Metz: Universal Exhibition of Agriculture, Industry, Horticulture, and Fine Arts. First Class Medal.
📍Nantes: Industrial Arts - National Exhibition. Silver Medal.
📍Brussels. Bronze Medal.
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Society for the Progress of Industrial Art. Silver Medal.
As a ceramic painter, he exhibited decorative elements such as furnishing vases, fireplaces, friezes, and wall panels for bathrooms, as well as ornaments for greenhouses and gardens, including basins, vases, and garden seats.
1862
London World's Fair
📍London
He participated for the first time in a world's fair, where he was awarded a medal. In the eyes of J.B. WARING, who published this chromolithograph of his stand, he was one of the most promising figures in the manufacture of artistic earthenware. The stand featured a vast collection of vases, cups, dishes, carafes, bottles, and ewers designed in neo-antique, neo-Renaissance, neo-Gothic, and Orientalist styles, demonstrating the eclecticism of his production.
1863
Exhibitions in Paris and Nevers
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry. First Class Medal.
On this occasion, he presented: a large frame for Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (1820-1904), a large torchère, an imposing three-basin fountain, medallions in high relief, busts, vases (including a very large one with a marine scene), ewers, cups and dishes, in a style sometimes Neo-Renaissance, sometimes Orientalist.
📍Nevers. Gold Medal.
1865
Exhibitions in Paris and Porto
📍Paris: Exhibition of the "Union Centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie." Visible in this photograph, we can recognize two large busts at their stand: that of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie.
📍Porto: International Exhibition. First-class medal.
1867
Paris World's Fair
📍Paris
He participated in the Paris World's Fair, where he won a bronze medal.
He presented a vast collection of vases, ewers, basins, planters, cups, plaques and bas-reliefs, statues, medallions, busts, fountains including one with two basins, a large torchère, cages, dinner sets, and especially table centerpieces.
In addition to his stand, he also created the decorative polychrome faience for the Empress's Pavilion, built in the gardens: friezes, tympanums, and medallions.
1868
Exhibition in Le Havre
📍Le Havre: International Maritime Exhibition. Bronze medal.
He exhibited large basins, planters, ewers, cachepots, bowls, inkwells, candelabras, hanging lights, lamps, and cups "of all kinds that tempt the hand and solicit the gaze."
1869
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry. First-class award.
1871
Exhibition in London
📍London: International Exhibition
He exhibited a large number of pieces: bas-reliefs, large panels and medallions, clocks, birdcages, vases, dishes, mostly in a Neo-Renaissance style.
1874
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry
He notably exhibited a large medallion, a bust, a statuette, and vases, partly visible in this photograph of the exhibition where his stand can be seen.
1875
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of Maritime and Riverine Industries
1876
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry
On this occasion, his eldest son, Maurice JEAN, received the bronze medal as a collaborator of the Maison JEAN.
1878
Exposition Universelle in Paris
📍Paris
Unable to exhibit in his own name, it was ultimately his son Maurice JEAN who represented him at this Exposition, presenting for the first time artistic glassware in addition to the earthenware, for which the astonishing prismatic iridescence was noted at the time. He was awarded a bronze medal for the artistic glassware.
It was also on this occasion that Auguste Jean created low-relief panels for the Palais du Champ de Mars as well as the earthenware for the pillars of the great vestibule of the Palais du Trocadéro in collaboration with Tiphine A. & Cie.
1880
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Union Centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie
1882
Exhibition in Paris
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Union Centrale des arts décoratifs
After refusing to exhibit certain pieces, he ultimately presented a collection of enameled earthenware and artistic glassware: a bust reminiscent of the Venus of Arles, vases, a large ciborium, a Japonisme dish, and a head of Minerva in bas-relief.
1884
Exhibitions in Paris and Amsterdam
📍Paris: Exhibition of the Central Union of Decorative Arts
📍Amsterdam: International Exhibition
Following his second bankruptcy, Auguste JEAN was not permitted to exhibit under his own name. He was represented by his sons under the name JEAN Fils or JEAN Charles. They presented a collection of artistic earthenware and glassware. In Amsterdam, he was awarded a gold medal.
1894
Last exhibition in Vierzon
📍Vierzon: Industrial, Agricultural, Horticultural and Artistic Exhibition of Vierzon. Grand Diploma of Honor for his exhibition of artistic earthenware.
"Further on, the beautiful artistic earthenware, with their graceful shapes, so expertly decorated and very skillfully displayed, showed visitors a collection of products from Mr. Jean's factory, a manufacturer in Vierzon-Village, who also exhibited porcelain, in various colors, some Sèvres blue, others smoked red, capable of rivaling the products of our great national manufacture."