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Cover for a Sugar Bowl

1745-48

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maker

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

(French, 1740-1756)

France, Vincennes

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Overall: 15.3 cm (6 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.225.b

Location

216A French and German

Description

This covered bowl is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain. Its decorations, particularly the lacy borders, show the influence of Meissen porcelain, but an individual note is struck in the extreme delicacy and colorful restraint of the painting of the landscape scenes.

Inscriptions

Inscription

In red on interior of lid: P.M. 16 4.8B

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

French porcelain factory, active ca. 1740-1756

Provenance

formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 139 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 139 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 182 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, fig. 63