The Jacques-Jeanneney pottery, named after its last two owners in the 20th century, is an exceptional pottery site in the Puisaye. For fifty years it kept the memory of the great potteries intact; the potteries that produced jars, salting-tubs, flower-pots and other objects indispensible to the households and industries of the period, until the end of the 1950s. That was before the invention of the fridge and plastic boxes...

Since 2000, the pottery, now named "Espace Céramique Jacques-Janneney", has found a new life, its unique huge 100m3 kiln put back into working order and the buildings being restored, by the "Association de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Potier de Puisaye". We organise ceramic workshops, exhibitions and are able to welcome potters for long term stay training sessions.

Espace Céramique Jacques-Jeanneney is opened to the public, everyday during summer, from 10h00 am to 7h00pm.

You are welcome to visit the whole site. Free entrance ! Please ask any question you could have on the site's history or pottery process to the association members who are working on site.

You will see a permanent exhibition of very fine traditional woodfired stoneware, made as they were made in the first half of 20th century. And you may buy them to finance the activities of the association. Unique art pieces at very reasonable price !

Site plan
(1) 100m3 kiln built in the 1820s, the firebox is in front of the "shell". The last firing was in October 2003. The next to last was in the 1950s!

(2) The lodge". Large hall that is used to store the dry wood, and to shelter the stokers during the firing.

(3) The pottery workshops containing the wheels, the clay-pit and the clay preparation tables, and the drying sheds.

(4)Buildings that were used as sculpture studios by Paul Jeanneney at the beginning of the twentieth centruy and were later used as drying sheds. Now they contain the exhibition rooms and there will soon be artist's studios too.

Some buildings along the Faubourg are, at the moment, in final restoration phase. They soon will be used as additional workshops and lodging for trainees and workshop session participants.