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Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Cup and saucer (gobelet litron)
- Year
- 1785
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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cup 5.8 x 7.4 x 5.5 cm; saucer 3.0 x 12.0 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.191.a-b
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The style of decoration recalls that of the ‘arabesque service’ designed by the architect Louis Masson for Marie-Antoinette in 1783.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 145
