SAUCER FROM A SET (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
The ground is turquoise-blue with an allover pattern in gold like a checkerboard, of single flowers within leafy frames; on the cup within a large panel is a scene with two women in a landscape, one holding a basket of flowers, the other reading a book with the word "Ecole". The saucer has a very deep rim with the smae pattern as the cup, and a scene in the center of a man and a woman seated under a tree.
- Object name:
- SAUCER FROM A SET (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE)
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1774
- Size:
- 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.137.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .1 (cup) with crossed L's enclosing a V for 1774, and partially covered with a paper sticker; ch under for Chabry (Etienne-Jean), fils aîné, painter of miniatures, pastoral subjects and figures 1764-87; .2 (saucer) Crossed L's the date letter V within , ch under and S to the right for Méraud (Pierr-Antoine), l'aîné, painter of flowers and borders
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973