Seau à bouteille
Wine Cooler
ca. 1755-1760 (made)
ca. 1755-1760 (made)
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Wine cooler of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. Bucket-shaped and lobed, with waved edge and female mask handles, painted in enamels with bouquets
Object details
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| Title | Seau à bouteille (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Wine cooler of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels, Sceaux pottery factory, ca. 1755-1760. |
| Physical description | Wine cooler of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. Bucket-shaped and lobed, with waved edge and female mask handles, painted in enamels with bouquets |
| Marks and inscriptions | a fleur-de-lys with three dots painted in black |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis |
| Object history | Paper labels: 'Marseilles (Savy) Fleur de lys now claimed as Sceaux' (in handwriting of Stuart G. Davis) and 'VANDERMEERSCH PORCELAINES FAIENCES ANCIENNES 31bis Rue des Sts Pères' |
| Production | Acquired as Sceaux, c. 1755. See also Object History. For a similar cooler dated c. 1755-60, but with different handles, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 154 centre |
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| Accession number | C.233-1951 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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