SMALL COSMETIC JAR (POT À POMMADE)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
Currently in storage
About this object
The ground is white, the shape is cylindrical, around the upper part of the body is a frieze of four fanciful blue vases containing flowers and connected by suspended swags of flowers in natural color, below, on one side is a cypher-a D in gold and a B in flowers, supposedly for Mme. Du Barry, the cover has the same frieze as the body, the handle is in the form of a peach and a leaf, formerly gilded.
- Object name:
- SMALL COSMETIC JAR (POT À POMMADE)
- Made from:
- Hard paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 20th c.
- Size:
- 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.135.1-2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crossed L's with F inside in underglaze blue; F - 1758 ??
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973