(Tasse) gobelet litron, 2nd size
Cup
1767 (made)
1767 (made)
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Coffee cup of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Cylindrical cup with a double-ended ear-shaped handle. The ground of blue celeste is trellised diamond-ways in gold. Painted with a subject after Boucher showing a boy and girl flying a bird on the end of a string in a woods.
Object details
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| Title | (Tasse) gobelet litron, 2nd size (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Coffee cup of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, painted by Dodin, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, 1767. |
| Physical description | Coffee cup of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Cylindrical cup with a double-ended ear-shaped handle. The ground of blue celeste is trellised diamond-ways in gold. Painted with a subject after Boucher showing a boy and girl flying a bird on the end of a string in a woods. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey |
| Object history | Goes with saucer C.1411A-1919. |
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| Accession number | C.1411-1919 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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