ICE CUP (TASSE À GLACE), ONE OF SIX
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The ground is pink, the shape is like an urn with a flaring lip and a pedestal foot, the handle is a scroll, on the front of each cup is a panel reserved in white containing a cluster of flowers in color, framed by gold flower sprays and palm fronds.
- Object name:
- ICE CUP (TASSE À GLACE), ONE OF SIX
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1775
- Size:
- 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.101.4
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .4 Crossed L's, four dots for Theodore, painter and gilder, 1765-1779. The mark for Buteux (Charles-Nicolas), ainé painter of flowers and gilder 1763-1801. Also the mark for Chavaux (Michel-Barnabé), gilder, 1752-1788, in gold; and a sword, the mark for Evans (Etienne), painter of birds, butterflies , landscapes and flowers, 1752-1806.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973