CREAM PITCHER (POT À LAIT)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The ground is pink, the shape is called "helmet" which has a high handle, curved lip, and low pedestal foot, on the front under the lip is an oval panel reserved in white containing a painting of two exotic birds in a landscape framed by a plain narrow gold band, around the rest of the middle of the body is a broad band of pink decorated with gold scrolls and floral sprays, at the top is a white band with two intertwined laurel garlands with red berries enclosing gold fleurettes, below is another white band enclosing a single garland of laurel, the bottom of the body and the foot are pink.
- Object name:
- CREAM PITCHER (POT À LAIT)
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- ca. 1780
- Size:
- 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.112
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crossed L's in overglaze blue
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973