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An image of Sugar bowl and lid (pot a sucre Bouret) by Sèvres

Sèvres

(France 1756– )

Title
Sugar bowl and lid (pot a sucre Bouret)
Year
circa 1785
Media category
Ceramic
Materials used
soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions

10.0 x 8.0 cm diam:

a - sugar bowl; 6.3 x 7.6cm

b - lid; 4.3 x 8cm

Credit
On loan from Kenneth Reed
Accession number
L2012.192.a-b
Location
18th c European porcelain
Further information

The shape, introduced in 1753, was named after one of the factory’s early shareholders.

Bibliography (1)

Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 146