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SHELL SHAPED DISH (COMPOTIER À COQUILLE), ONE OF TWO

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Porcelain Room


About this object

In the center on a white ground, is a cluster of flowers and fruit in natural color; the rim is painted turquoise-blue and has three oval panels reserved in white each containing one exotic bird in a landscape and framed with gold rococo scrolls and floral sprays.

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 x 22.4 cm (8 1/4 x 8 13/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
24.42.2
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK .2 Crossed L's, the date letter gg for 1784 (?), and the mark for Mme Bunel, painter of flowers 1778-1816; also the mark for Sioux, âiné, flower painter 1752-92 (?); a 80 incised.
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973