Collection
Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Cup and saucer
- Year
- circa 1791-circa 1793
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
cup 6.1 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm; saucer 3.2 x 12.2 cm diam:
a - cup; 6.1 x 7.8 x 5.7cm
b - saucer; 3.2 x 12.2cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.201.a-b
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
Hard-paste Sèvres with a black ground and gilding (sometimes with the addition of platinum decoration) was especially fashionable in the first years of the 1790s. The chinoiserie scenes are probably based on prints by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. The result resembles oriental lacquer.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 147
