CREAM PITCHER (POT À LAIT)

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Drawing Room

About this object

The ground is pink, the shape is called "helmet" which has a high handle, curved lip, and low pedestal foot, on the front under the lip is an oval panel reserved in white containing a painting of two exotic birds in a landscape framed by a plain narrow gold band, around the rest of the middle of the body is a broad band of pink decorated with gold scrolls and floral sprays, at the top is a white band with two intertwined laurel garlands with red berries enclosing gold fleurettes, below is another white band enclosing a single garland of laurel, the bottom of the body and the foot are pink.

Object name:

CREAM PITCHER (POT À LAIT)

Made from:

Soft paste porcelain

Made in:

Sèvres, France

Date made:

ca. 1780

Size:

4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

24.112

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK Crossed L's in overglaze blue

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973