PLATE, ONE OF 20
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
Currently in storage
About this object
This plate belongs to a set of 20; the decoration is the same on all the plates, with only slight variations. The ground is turquoise-blue; in the center is a cluster of flowers and fruit on a white ground; on the rim three cabbage leaves reserved in white each containing on exotic bird in a landscape; in betweeen them areas of turquoise-blue are decorated with garlands of flowers in gold.
- Object name:
- PLATE, ONE OF 20
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.138.16
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Sevres; mb under; x over in brownish red; 3I incised; Sevres - 1793-1800 mb - Mme. Bunel (born M. Buteux), painter of flowers 1778-1816. x - Micaud, Jacques-Francois, painter of flowers and ornament, 1757-1800+.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973