Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (La souffleuse de savon)

Description

English potteries often courted aristocratic clients with cheaper wares that looked like more expensive works from the major centers of porcelain production in the eighteenth century, especially France, Germany, and China. In this case, the image printed in center of the plate depicts a young lady, enticing a boy with her skill at blowing soap bubbles through a thin pipe. The print was taken from an etching by Jean Daullé (French, 1703–1763), of the painting La souffleuse de savon (1758) by Francois Boucher (French, 1703–1770).

Provenance

R. Thornton Wilson, New York.

Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (La souffleuse de savon)

Jean Daulle

c. 1760–70

Accession Number

1948.118

Medium

salt-glazed, transfer-printed stoneware

Dimensions

Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)

Classification

Ceramic

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson