French potter, born circa 1510. At first he traveled around the country as a stained glass worker, but when he came to live in Sainte, he began researching ceramic glazes. He continued to experiment in his poverty, and there is a story that he even used furniture and floorboards as fuel because he lacked fuel. He developed a technique of covering relief-applied vessels with a yellowish-white enamel glaze to which tin or lead had been added, and then adding color. It took him sixteen years to invent this technique. In 1567, he was welcomed in Paris and became a royal potter, with a workshop in the Tuileries Palace. He then traveled to Sudan and Germany to avoid the complicated political situation, but returned to Paris in 1573. The realism of his early botanical and floral motifs was lost, and he began to use Greek mythological themes such as angels and Venus, or Neptune and sea horses. He was also active in educational activities, giving public lectures on geology, mineralogy, and natural history for ten years starting in 1575, and when he was forced to convert or defect by imperial order in 1585, he refused, and was captured in 1589 and thrown into the Bastille, where he died. In his book “Introduction to Nature” (1580), there is a chapter “On the Technique” of pottery. (Kazuo Watanabe, People of the French Renaissance)
