BUTTER DISH WITH COVER AND ATTACHED TRAY (BEURRIER), ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
The ground is turquoise-blue; the dish is round, covered, and attached to a tray; the cover has two panels reserved in white containing clusters of flowers, and a plain rectangular handle; the dish has two rectangular tabs, each with a hole extending upwards into cutouts on the lids; in the dish two panels with clusters of flowers on white; the tray has three panels each containing a single exotic bird in a landscape, and framed by floral sprays in gold and small curved areas of lattice.
- Object name:
- BUTTER DISH WITH COVER AND ATTACHED TRAY (BEURRIER), ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.20.3-4
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .2 Crossed L's, the date letter R outside the L's for 1770 (?) and the mark given to Genin, painter of animals and figures 1757-58 (?); 24 incised.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973