SQUARE PLATE
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The ground is pink, at each corner a kidney-shaped panel reserved in white containing two exotic birds in a landscape, framed by gold floral sprays and small curved areas of lattice, in the center on white a cluster of flowers and fruit and two floral sprays, at the inner edge of the rim a narrow band of scalloped gold feathering.
- Object name:
- SQUARE PLATE
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.102
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crossed L's the date letter I for 1764 (?) to the left, and Y to the right for Bouillat (Edmé-Francois), père, painter of fruit, flowers, butterflies, etc...(?); also with D in gold and B in flowers, interlaced, and ff incised paste
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973