Félix Potin opened his first shop at 28 rue Coquenard in Paris in 1844, at the age of just 24. … In 1860, he opened the first two-level, large-area retailer on the Boulevard de Sébastopol in Paris. The following year he constructed a Félix Potin factory in La Villette, in the northern outskirts of Paris. These pots are highly collectable and now becoming more rare. This one is in lovely condition apart from a chip on the rim which does not detract from it’s beauty; use it for a bunch of flowers, cutlery or simply on it’s own…