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Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre Calabre)

Gilder (French, founded 1756)
Decorator (French, active 1765 - 1788 and 1790 - 1802)
Gilder (French, 1753 - 1779)
CultureFrench
OriginSèvres, Île-de-France, France
PeriodLouis XVI (1644-1791)
Date1787
MediumSoft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels, gilding
DimensionsOverall (G83.1.1075.1-2): 9.9 x 8.3 cm (3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
MarkingsInterlaced Ls and date letter KK. Painter’s mark DT. Gilder’s mark VD
DescriptionSèvres yellow ground sugar bowl, with domes cover having gilded bud finial. It is decorated with a border of formal scrolls, urns, arrangements of roses, and laurel garlands on a white ground. The pale primrose yellow ground is painted with formal scrolls and garlands of roses in blue, with gilded rims.


Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner
Object numberG83.1.1075.1-2
Classifications
European Ceramics
Sub-classification
French Porcelain
Status
On view
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