SAUCER FROM A SET (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
Around the center of the cup is a broad band in yellow decorated with a scattering of pink roses and blue bachelor buttons. Bands around the top and bottom are bordered in dusty pink with a band of a string of pearls on each, the whole outlined in gold on each side. The handle is decorated in gold. On the saucer is a white medallion containing a cluster of roses and a wreath of laurel leaves. The rim is in yellow and dusty pink like the cup.
- Object name:
- SAUCER FROM A SET (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE)
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1783
- Size:
- 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.124.2
- Signature marks:
- MARK .1 (cup) and .2 (saucer) with crossed L's ,the date letters ff for 1783, and the mark an undetermined painter working c. 1771-1795; .2 has also a dotted circle for Sioux (Jean-Charles), âiné, flower painter,1752-92. >1 has 41 incised; .2 has 29 incised.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973