PLATE, ONE OF 16
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
In the center of each plate on a white ground is a cluster of fruit and flowers in natural colors; the rim is painted turquoise-blue and has three oval panels reserved in white each containing one exotic bird in a landscape, each framed with elaborate gold scrolls and floral sprays.
- Object name:
- PLATE, ONE OF 16
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 18th c.-19th c.
- Size:
- 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.46.7
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK .7 Crossed L's, the date letter gg for 1784 (?), and am under- the mark for an undetermined painter of flowers working c. 1782-5 (?).
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973