Vintage St Amand France French Revolution Dinner Set

6 dinner plates, 6 salad plates, 6 teacups with saucers

Saint-Amand is a renowned 18th-century French pottery and earthenware (faïence and terre de fer) manufacturer based in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. These commemorative sets feature motifs, slogans, and emblems honoring the French Revolution (1789). Individual pieces commonly feature hand-painted or stenciled revolutionary phrases and symbols:

• « A Ca Ira » (referencing the popular revolutionary song of the sans-culottes, first heard in 1790)
• « La Montagne 1791 » (referencing "The Mountain" political group and the French Constitution of 1791)
• « Constitution » (referencing the 1791 National Assembly constitution)
• « Vive la Liberté » / « Vive la Liberté Sans Licence »
• « Vive la Nation ! »
• « La Loi », « La Patrie », « La Paix »