Paul-Antoine Hannong
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Paul-Antoine Hannong was a French pottery manufacturer who, along with his father Charles-François and son Joseph-Adam, was instrumental in the production of Strasbourg ware. This enterprise, active from 1721 to 1780, produced both faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and porcelain. Paul-Antoine is noted for his creative designs, including tureens shaped like vegetables and naturalistic animal figures, often in an ornate Rococo style. He was also an early adopter of overglaze painting techniques in France. Due to a prohibition on porcelain production by other French factories, Hannong moved his porcelain operations to Germany in 1755, though his son later resumed porcelain making in Strasbourg.
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