Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Tea service
- Year
- 1762
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
tray 4.3 x 21.0 x 19.0 cm; milk jug 8.6 x 8.4 x 6.0 cm; sugar bowl 5.6 x 7.0 x 7.0 cm; cover 3.5 x 7.0 x 7.0 cm; combined height 7.9 cm; cup 6.1 x 9.2 x 7.3 cm; saucer 2.8 x 11.6 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.196.a-f
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The patterned ground is a striated form of the rose marbré (marbled pink) ground fashionable during the period 1760–63. A blue ground has been applied over the pink and scraped away to produce the pattern before being heightened with streaks of gold over the blue.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 96 (colour illus., detail), 99 (colour illus.). cat.no. 125
