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Details
- Date
- circa 1791-circa 1793
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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cup 6.1 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm; saucer 3.2 x 12.2 cm diam
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a - cup, 6.1 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm
b - saucer, 3.2 x 12.2 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2010.201.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sèvres
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 147
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