Château Borély - Musée des arts décoratifs, de la faïence et de la mode de la Ville de Marseille

This guide to Chateau Borely in Marseille opens with a question about why an ordinary medicine jar would ever be painted like a work of art, tracing it back to 1677 and the potter Joseph Clerissy, who fired the city's first faience kiln. It follows his family's workshop through decades of trade and disease at the port, and the apothecaries who dressed their remedies in cobalt and saints. From there it turns to the chateau itself, built in the 1760s for the merchant Louis Borely, and how the city later folded that unrelated collection into his rococo rooms.