CUP (GOBELET LITRON)

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Porcelain Room

About this object

The ground is canary yellow. On the front of the cup is an oval medallion and on the saucer a round one. Each contains a landscape in monochrome brown (sepia) with a bridge over a waterfall, a tree at the right, a building at the left, the cup has in addition a single fishermen seated in the foreground, each piece has a vine scroll at the rim in a paler brown interrupted by two handled vases.

Object name:

CUP (GOBELET LITRON)

Made from:

Soft paste porcelain

Made in:

Sèvres, France

Date made:

1789

Size:

2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

24.128.1

Signature marks:

MARK .1 (cup) and .2 (saucer) with crossed L's, Ll within for the date 1789, flanked by the letter J to the left and H to the right; also the battle axe for Rosset, painter of flowers and landscapes 1753-1795; .1 has 44 and 49 incised; .2 has 34 incised

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973