Sugar Bowl (Sucrier)

Description

This covered bowl is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain. Its decorations, particularly the lacy borders, show the influence of Meissen porcelain, but an individual note is struck in the extreme delicacy and colorful restraint of the painting of the landscape scenes.

Provenance

formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).

Sugar Bowl (Sucrier)

Sèvres Porcelain Factory

1745–48

Accession Number

1944.225.a

Medium

soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Dimensions

Part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

Classification

Ceramic

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund