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ICE CUP (TASSE À GLACE), ONE OF SIX

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Drawing Room


About this object

The ground is pink, the shape is like an urn with a flaring lip and a pedestal foot, the handle is a scroll, on the front of each cup is a panel reserved in white containing a cluster of flowers in color, framed by gold flower sprays and palm fronds.

Object name:
ICE CUP (TASSE À GLACE), ONE OF SIX
Made from:
Soft paste porcelain
Made in:
Sèvres, France
Date made:
1775
Size:
2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
24.101.2
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK .2 Crossed L's, the date letter x within for 1775 (partially effaced). Four dots for Theodore, painter and gilder, 1765-1779; the mark for Buteux (Charles-Nicolas), ainé painter of flowers and gilder 1763-1801, and also the mark for Chavaux (Michel-Barnabé), gilder, 1752-1788, in gold.
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973