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Chocolate cup, cover and saucer
Boissette porcelain factory - Enlarge image
Chocolate cup, cover and saucer
- Place of origin:
Seine-et-Marne, France (made)
- Date:
ca. 1778 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Boissette porcelain factory (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted with enamels
- Credit Line:
Given by J.H. Fitzhenry, Esq.
- Museum number:
C.544 to B-1909
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 27, shelf 1
Physical description
Chocolate cup, cover and saucer of porcelain painted with enamels. Painted with bouquets of flowers.
[Cup body (with saucer)] Cup, inverted truncated and cone-shaped, and with a loop handle composed of two intertwined twigs coloured yellow.
[Cup cover] Domed cover surmounted by a red plum.
[Saucer] Trembleuse saucer with a concave rim. The edge is slightly lobed. Deep well in the middle.
Place of Origin
Seine-et-Marne, France (made)
Date
ca. 1778 (made)
Artist/maker
Boissette porcelain factory (maker)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels
Marks and inscriptions
'B' and two dots
Dimensions
[Cup body (with saucer)] Height: 11.7 cm with cover, Diameter: 8.9 cm
[Saucer] Diameter: 15.6 cm
Descriptive line
Chocolate cup, cover and saucer of porcelain painted with enamels, Boissette porcelain factory, Seine-et-Marne, ca. 1778
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Plum; Trembleuse
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
