Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Soup plate (assiette à potage)
- Year
- 1773
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
3.9 x 24.0 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.186
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
From a service acquired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1773 but returned to the factory a few years later. After additions the resulting large service was in part sold in 1781 and in part used as a diplomatic gift to Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore, in 1788. The decoration is described in the factory records as point d’Espagne (the term refers to a lacework edging used on soft furnishings).
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 105 (colour illus.). cat.no. 140
