Jardiniere

ca. 1750-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

With two compartments, taller at the back, with gently flaring sides and scalloping picked out in colours top and bottom, painted in enamels with bouquets and cut flowers. Lacking compartmented cover for bulbs.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
Brief description
Jardiniere of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels, made by Sceaux pottery factory, France, about 1750-1760
Physical description
With two compartments, taller at the back, with gently flaring sides and scalloping picked out in colours top and bottom, painted in enamels with bouquets and cut flowers. Lacking compartmented cover for bulbs.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Production
Acquired as Sceaux, c. 1770. For similar painting dated to the period of Chapelle's management (ending in 1759) see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 150.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.235-1951

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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