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