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The pale blue ground is a later variant of the turquoise blue ground colour (normally described in factory documents as ‘bleu céleste’) introduced in 1753. The piece bears on the base the red inventory number of the J Pierpont Morgan collection.
Details
Date
1776
Materials used
soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
canister 6.7 x 7.3 x 5.1 cm; cover 1.4 x 3.0 cm diam; combined height 7.9 cm
Credit
On loan from Kenneth Reed
Accession number
L2012.188.a-b
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 105 (colour illus.). cat.no. 142