The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Plate (Assiette)
c. 1760–65
Location: Not on view
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The hatched border of this plate was likely produced by engine-turning, a process by which clay is turned on a rotating tool to produce fluted, geometric, and diced patterns.Description
As European porcelain production advanced, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. Paintings of one to two figures perched on a rock or small hill overlooking a pastoral landscape were regularly reproduced on tea services fabricated at the Mennecy porcelain factory. These compositions were likely inspired by similar landscapes painted on porcelain at the Vincennes factory.- (Cesar de Hauke, Paris).
- Darblay, Ayme. Villeroy: son passé, sa fabrique de porcelaine, son état actuel. Paris: Picard, 1901. p. 89; pl. 43, 44Freǵnac, Claude. Les Porcelainiers du XVIIIe siècle franca̧is. Paris: Hachette, 1964. p. 133Dupont, Patrick. Porcelaines franc̦aises aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Paris: Les Éditions de l'Illustration, 1987. p. 62Duchon, Nicole. La Manufacture de porcelaine de Mennecy Villeroy. Le Mée-sur-Seine: Editions Amatteis, 1988. p. 23, 75, 138Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. "Porcellane in 'gloria': La manifattura di Villeroy-Mennecy (1735-1777)." CeramicAntica (October 2000). p. 29-32
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