Magné: Oven Pontet and pottery.
The first workshops of pottery dating from Magne u XIX century. After few fleeting and unsuccessful attempts in this village, it is only 1906 appointed a JUMPER, modernizes pottery his uncle, a Ravard. It constr uit a two-stage furnace that will produce utilitarian and decorative pottery. It is the country's land is used. Parts p roducts proved fragile, however. The company Pontet stop working in 1980 and buildings purchased in 1989 by the municipality, became the cultural center. Nowadays one can find in flea markets and yard sales for region pottery pieces made by Pontet . In the art of ceramics, they represent the moving testimony of the common heritage of Magna and its region.
N ll show you some pieces of our collection.
