PLATE
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The ground is pink, in the center on a white ground is a cluster of flowers within a medallion edged by a lacy gold frame, the same delicate motifs also line the inner edge of the rim, the rim has three panels reserved in white, each containing a blue vase filled with flowers and flanked by flower sprays emerging from gold leaf scrolls, the panels are linked by swags of leaves suspended from ribbon-topped pendant flower clusters all in gold.
- Object name:
- PLATE
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1783
- Size:
- 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.108
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crossed L's, FF for 1783, F B under- for Barrat (Francois-Marie), painter of fruits, flowers...1769-91; also HP in gold for Prevost (Henry-Martin) gilder 1757-97. HLL incised
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973