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SQUARE DISH FROM THE YELLOW SERVICE WITH BIRDS

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: Pavilion Hallway


About this object

There are nine pieces of this service at Hillwood- six plates, one square dish, and two saucers. The rims on all the pieces have the same decoration- delicate, abstract linear motifs in dark brown or black on a yellow ground. The square dish and the six plates are similarly decorated. They all have a large bird in a landscape in the center on a white ground after Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux". The name of the particular birds is inscribed on the back of each plate. The two saucers have each three medallions, each with a bird, and in the center, a round medallion reserved in white.

Object name:
SQUARE DISH FROM THE YELLOW SERVICE WITH BIRDS
Made from:
Soft paste porcelain
Made in:
Sèvres, France
Date made:
1793
Size:
20.6 cm (8 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
24.130.1
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK; INSCRIPTION .1 Inscribed: Le Merle de Roche; Marked: Crossed L's, the date letter qq inside for 1794, a dagger- for Etienne Evans, painter of animals, butterflies and birds, 1752-1806; also j d (?) incised
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973