Chantilly porcelain manufactory
(France 1730–circa 1800)
- Title
- Pair of tea bowls and saucers and a sugar bowl and cover
- Year
- circa 1730-1735
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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Sugar bowl 5.3 x 7.3 cm diam; cover 2.6 x 8.6 cm diam; combined 7.0 x 8.6 cm diam; teabowls (both) 4.6 x 6.3 cm diam; saucers 2.5 x 11.3 cm diam and 2.6 x 11.5 cm diam; combined height (both) 5.2 cm:
a - tea bowl 1; 4.6 x 6.3cm
b - saucer 1; 2.5 x 11.3cm
c - tea bowl 2; 4.6 x 6.3cm
d - saucer 2; 2.6 x 11.5cm
e - sugar bowl; 5.3 x 7.3cm
f - cover; 2.6 x 8.6cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.75.a-f
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The porcelain body is covered by an opaque white tin glaze. The shapes derive from Japanese porcelain, but the pattern is a rare one which may derive from a non-porcelain prototype. Many examples of oriental design in various media were available in the prince de Condé’s collection. Samples from the collection were illustrated by Jean-Antoine Fraisse in his’ Livre de desseins chinois (Book of Chinese designs)’ published in 1735.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 34, 35 (colour illus.). cat.no. 39
