ICE PAIL WITH LINER AND COVER, ONE OF A TWO
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The background is turquoise-blue. Underneath each angular handle is a garland of flowers with ribbons in gold. On each face is an oval panel reserved in white painted with a landscape with two exotic birds in natural colors within gilt borders. The rectangular handles are in white touched in gold. The pail has three bun feet. The liner has turquoise edges. The cover has the same decoration of gilt floral swags that appears under each handle of the ice pail.
- Object name:
- ICE PAIL WITH LINER AND COVER, ONE OF A TWO
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 12.1 × 24 cm (4 3/4 × 9 7/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.10.3-5
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK No marks on pails since the bottoms are painted turquoise-blue, no mark on the cover
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973