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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Pot à jus

Gravy Pot and Cover
ca. 1765-ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Barrel-shaped earthenware gravy pot, with low domed cover, loop handle picked out in brown, and flower-bud finial to cover; the sides painted in polychrome colours with flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Gravy Pot
  • Gravy Pot Cover
TitlePot à jus (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Gravy (meat juice) pot and cover, painted floral decoration on white ground, by Meillonnas pottery factory, France, ca. 1765-ca. 1770
Physical description
Barrel-shaped earthenware gravy pot, with low domed cover, loop handle picked out in brown, and flower-bud finial to cover; the sides painted in polychrome colours with flowers.
Credit line
Given by Monsieur Albert Bichet
Object history
Acquisition type: Gift
Production
Note in register for C.13&A-1912, the pair to this piece: 'Ascribed by the donor to the factory of Meillonnas, but evidently made at the same factory as C.10-1912, which he ascribed to Aprey. See also Devenlaux, Les faience d'Aprey, pl. VIII, fig. 26). Stated by M. Gilbert Lévy, dealer of Paris, to be Meillonas'
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.14&A-1912

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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