ICE PAIL WITH COVER AND LINER (SEAU À GLACE), ONE OF TWO

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Porcelain Room

About this object

The ground is turquoise-blue. The pattern is cabbage leaf enclosed below by a gold swag of flowers and leaves, panels on front and back each enclose clusters of flowers in color on white, smaller panels under the handles enclose each a landscape with two exotic birds. The standing rim of the cover has on the outside three cabbage leaves each with two exotic birds in a landscape and three inside each with a cluster of flowers and fruit, the bottom of the cover has three gold garlands linking the blue areas, the handles are rectangular, the pot rests in three bun feet.

Object name:

ICE PAIL WITH COVER AND LINER (SEAU À GLACE), ONE OF TWO

Made from:

Soft paste porcelain

Made in:

Sèvres, France

Date made:

18th c.-19th c.

Size:

16.8 x 17.1 cm (6 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

24.3.1-3

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK .1 (pot) Crossed L's, and B d under- for Badouin, gilder 1750-1800 (?)

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973