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Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)

1745–48
(French, 1740–1756)
France, Vincennes
soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
Part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.225
Location: 216A French and German
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Three separate shades of purple, one of the most expensive colors to produce on porcelain during this time, are used extensively in this object’s paintings.

Description

This covered bowl, likely intended for sugar, is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain, a reputed French factory moved to Sèvres in 1756. The continuous landscape is painted on this object en pointillé, a method by which a painter forms images with tiny dots. This style may have been influenced by their German competitors at the Meissen Porcelain Factory.
Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)

Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)

1745–48

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

(French, 1740–1756)
France, Vincennes

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