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Oiron ware is enriched with raised ornaments in bold relief-- masks, escutcheons, shells, and wreaths. The forms are always pure in outline and in the style of the Renaissance. They are usually small and light, and consist entirely of small pieces--cups, ewers, candlesticks, salt-cellars, and that vessel for drinking of peculiar shape to which the French have given the name of 'biberon.'

Fabulous prices have been given for specimens; the biberon in the Comte de Pourtales' sale, in 1865, was purchased by Mr. I. Malcolm for 1,100 L. A small salt-cellar was sold about the same time for 700L. The five pieces in the South Kensington Museum, a salver, a candlestick, a salt-cellar, and two tazzas cost more than 1,800 L. 

Sixty-seven pieces are known of this ware, not one of which exactly resembles another.