PLATE
Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: French Porcelain Room
About this object
The ground is turquoise-blue, the center is painted with a cluster of flowers and fruit in natural color on a white ground, the rim has three oval panels reserved in white each containing a spray of flowers in natural color, strings of gilt bellflowers (husks?) encircle the rim inner edge and form nine wreaths on the rim, three between each reserve.
- Object name:
- PLATE
- Made from:
- Soft paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Sèvres, France
- Date made:
- 1770
- Size:
- 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 24.61
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crossed L's in blue, the date letter R within for 1770, and X for Micaud (Jacques-Francois),painter of flowers and ornament working 1757-1800s; also X incised
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973