Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Cup and saucer (gobelet litron)
- Year
- 1775
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
cup 7.7 x 9.9 x 7.5 cm; saucer 2.9 x 15.0 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.199.a-b
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The scene on the cup is based on a design by Boucher recorded both in an etching by the artist and in a print by Gilles Demarteau. It seems unlikely that a cup so finely decorated was ever intended for use.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 104 (colour illus.). cat.no. 139
