TWO-HANDLED BOWL WITH COVER (ECUELLE)
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
The background is turquoise-blue, each piece has two oval panels containing on or two figures in a landscape after Huet, one on the cover shows a boy training a dog to stand on his hind legs, one on the oval tray shows a youth manipulating a bird trap.
- Object name:
- TWO-HANDLED BOWL WITH COVER (ECUELLE)
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1775
- Size:
- 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.18.1-2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Both the ecuelle (.1) and the plateau (.3) are marked with crossed L's, the date letter X for 1775 and Ch for the painter Chabry (Etienne-Jean), fils, painter of pastoral scenes, 1765-1787, all in blue; also D R in gold near foot rim for Francois Drand, painter of flowers and gilder 1764-75 and 1780. Eriksen/Bellaigue note the this mark is occasionally placed at some distance of the factory mark (see n. 37). .1 has M 6 incised; .3 has T m incised. o
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973