Seau à bouteille
Wine Cooler
about 1770-1780 (made)
about 1770-1780 (made)
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Bucket-shaped cooler, tin-glazed earthenware, with scroll handles, painted front and back in puce and green enamels with medallions with cherubs or putti representing the Arts, each framed with swags of flowers in colours, the sides with bouquets, the rims and mouldings with traces of gilding
Object details
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| Title | Seau à bouteille |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Wine cooler, earthenware painted in puce and green enamels with medallions with cherubs, Sceaux pottery factory, France, about 1770-1780 |
| Physical description | Bucket-shaped cooler, tin-glazed earthenware, with scroll handles, painted front and back in puce and green enamels with medallions with cherubs or putti representing the Arts, each framed with swags of flowers in colours, the sides with bouquets, the rims and mouldings with traces of gilding |
| Marks and inscriptions | '1 of a pair FRENCH Sceaux' (base inscribed in blue) |
| Object history | Bought from the Aigoin collection; the pair with 46-1870. The base is inscribed '1 of a pair FRENCH Sceaux' in blue |
| Production | Acquired as Strasbourg or Moustiers, 18th century, reattributed to Sceaux, c. 1780 |
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| Accession number | 47-1870 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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