CUP FROM A TEA OR BREAKFAST SERVICE, ONE OF FOUR

Creator(s): Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

On view in: French Drawing Room

About this object

The ground is pink, the pieces consist of a covered teapot, covered sugar bowl, and four cups and saucers, the cups and saucers and the pot's cover have each one panel reserved in white, the pot, bowl and its cover have each two similar panels. All have the same decoration-a wreath of flowers which follows the shape of the panel, each is framed by extensive, vigorous gold leafy scrolls, the knobs on the covers are white flower heads in the round.

Object name:

CUP FROM A TEA OR BREAKFAST SERVICE, ONE OF FOUR

Made from:

Soft paste porcelain

Made in:

Sèvres, France

Date made:

ca. 1758

Size:

2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

24.94.11

Signature marks:

MARK .11 (cup) and .12 (saucer) are marked in blue with the crossed L's and with the fleur-de-lys of Taillandier, painter of flowers 1735-1790

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973