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Pot à sucre Calabre, 5th size

Sugar Bowl and Cover
ca. 1758 (made)
Artist/Maker
Sèvres Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
France (made)

Sugar bowl and cover, sinuous sides, soft-paste porcelain, decorated with landscapes with birds painted in enamels with gilding on a gros bleu and vert pomme ground. Lid with flower and leaf knop.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate Wares
Tableware & Cutlery
Object type
Sugar bowl and cover
TitlePot à sucre Calabre, 5th size (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Soft-Paste Porcelain
Brief description
Sugar bowl and cover, porcelain decorated with landscapes with birds painted in enamels, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, about 1758
Physical description
Sugar bowl and cover, sinuous sides, soft-paste porcelain, decorated with landscapes with birds painted in enamels with gilding on a gros bleu and vert pomme ground. Lid with flower and leaf knop.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.5cm
  • Diameter: 5.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Interlaced 'L's (Maker's markin blue enamel)
  • '*'
Credit line
Bequeathed by John Jones
Object history
John Jones Bequest. Cat. no. 158.
Subjects depicted
Landscapes
Birds
Flowers
Leaves
Bibliographic references
  • Le Corbeiller, Clare and Roth, Linda H. French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, J. Pierpoint Morgan Collection. Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000. See catalogue no. 84, pp 179-180, for a cup and saucer Bouillard , bearing date letter 'F' for 1759. The authors suggest it may have been part of a set matching this sugar bowl and cover 790-1882. 'In 1758 there were only six pieces with blue and green ground decoration recorded in the sales ledgers, all described as lapis et verd . There followed a gap of some eighteen months, until December 1759, before the combination of blue and green appeared again in the sales records wbut it was now described as saffre et verd . It was customary for the latest innovation from the factory to be presented to the king during the end of the year sales at Versailles....In the very same year [1759] Madame de Pompadour bought three tea sets and a pot-pourri vaisseau all of which were described as saffre et verd.'
  • William King, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, II, Ceramics, ormolu, goldsmiths' work, enamels, sculpture, tapestry, books, and prints (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924), p. 22, no. 158 (with 790C and 790D-1882)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
790B-1882

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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