Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Ice-cream cooler (seau à glace)
- Year
- 1767
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
seau 12.6 x 22.7 x 19.1 cm; cover 7.0 x 19.9 cm diam; combined height 18.9 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.172.a-b
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
With four matching compotiers (L2012.173, L2012.174, L2012.175, L2012.176), this piece comes from the dessert element of a mixed service (ie with differently decorated dinner and dessert components) delivered to the comte du Châtelet-Lomont on 31 December 1767. A liner (now missing) would have contained ice-cream or sorbet and would have been seated in ice. The deep rim of the cover is also designed to contain ice.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 102 (colour illus.). cat.no. 131
