SHELL-SHAPED DISH (COMPOTIER À COQUILLE), ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The ground is turquoise-blue; in the center is a cluster of flowers and fruit in color on a white ground; on the rim are three panels reserved in white, each containing a single exotic bird with foliage, and framed by gold floral sprays and small areas of lattice.
- Object name:
- SHELL-SHAPED DISH (COMPOTIER À COQUILLE), ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- after 1784
- Size:
- 21.4 x 21.9 cm (8 7/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.41.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .2 Crossed L's, gg for 1784 (?), mb for Mme Bunel (née Manon Buteux), painter of flowers 1778-1816 (?), and a dotted circle for Siou (Jean-Charles), painter of flowers and borders, 1752-92; 20 incised.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973