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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Seau à liqueurs

Bottle Cooler
ca. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Wine or liquer bottle cooler, earthenware, of bombe shape and with waved edge picked out in yellow and moulded scroll handles, each side painted in enamel colours with a bouquet of flowers


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Seau à liqueurs
  • seau à rafraîchir unt topette (un quart du bouteille)
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Wine or liquer bottle cooler, earthenware, Fauchier pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1780
Physical description
Wine or liquer bottle cooler, earthenware, of bombe shape and with waved edge picked out in yellow and moulded scroll handles, each side painted in enamel colours with a bouquet of flowers
Gallery label
Gallery 128 Decant 2003 Possibly painted by Jacques Borelly(07/06/2004)
Credit line
Given by Stuart G. Davis
Object history
Acquisition type: Gift
Production
Acquired as Marseilles, Fauchier factory, painted by Jaques Borelly. Note in register: 'Mr Stuart Davis has in his possession a tureen of the same ware painted in the same manner and signed Jacques Borelly. cf. Arnard D'Agnet, La faience et la Porcelaine de Marseilles p. 31-5.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.56-1925

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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