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(Tasse) gobelet Hebert
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(Tasse) gobelet Hebert
- Object:
Cup
- Place of origin:
Sèvres, France (made)
- Date:
ca. 1760 (made)
19th century (decorated) - Artist/Maker:
Sevres (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
- Museum number:
C.1403-1919
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 27, shelf 7
Physical description
Tea cup of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. With a double entwined foliate ended handle. Oval gilt edged panel reserved on a ground of bleu lapis covered with gilt vermiculations and contains a boy seated under a tree cutting flowers with a sickle.
Place of Origin
Sèvres, France (made)
Date
ca. 1760 (made)
19th century (decorated)
Artist/maker
Sevres (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Dimensions
Height: 6.6 cm, Diameter: 7.8 cm, Width: 10 cm maximum
Descriptive line
Tea cup of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, ca. 1760, possibly re-decorated in 19th century.
Production Note
ca. 1760, or possibly with 19th century decoration; William King suggested in 1925 that this cup was redecorated in the 19th century
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Tree; Boy; Panels
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
