Vincennes
(France 1740–1756)
- Title
- Cup and saucer (tasse à qustre pans ronds)
- Year
- circa 1748-circa 1749
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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Cup 4.5 x 10 x 7.7 cm; saucer 3.1 x 13.6 x 12.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.193.a-b
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The four-lobed design derives from a Meissen model. The fact that the rim is gilded implies a date in or after 1748. The flower painting is of a style also deriving from Meissen which was used at Vincennes only in its early years. Imperfections in the form of dark specks in the paste are also evidence of a relatively early date.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 40 (colour illus.). cat.no. 41
