SAUCER (SOUCOUPE)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
The ground is canary yellow. On the front of the cup is an oval medallion and on the saucer a round one. Each contains a landscape in monochrome brown (sepia) with a bridge over a waterfall, a tree at the right, a building at the left, the cup has in addition a single fishermen seated in the foreground, each piece has a vine scroll at the rim in a paler brown interrupted by two handled vases.
- Object name:
- SAUCER (SOUCOUPE)
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1789
- Size:
- 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.128.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .1 (cup) and .2 (saucer) with crossed L's, Ll within for the date 1789, flanked by the letter J to the left and H to the right; also the battle axe for Rosset, painter of flowers and landscapes 1753-1795; .1 has 44 and 49 incised, .2 has 34 incised.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973