The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Bowl

c. 1765
manufacturer

Mennecy Factory

(French)
manufacturer

Mennecy- Villeroy Factory

(French)
France, Mennecy, 18th century
soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1964.509
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The Vincennes porcelain factory’s royally supported monopoly for the creation of porcelain that emulated the German style forced the Villeroy factory to relocate to Mennecy in 1748.

Description

As European porcelain production advanced over the course of the 18th century, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. This plate’s painted composition with two birds in the foreground, may have been inspired by bird paintings produced at the Vincennes porcelain factory beginning in the late 1740s.
  • R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 52 (November 1965). p. 153, no. 54, ill. p. 138
    Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. "Fleurons méconnus de la manufacture de Villeroy-Menncy." L'Estampille, no. 350 (September 2000). p. 89.
    Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. "Porcellane in 'gloria': la manifattura di Villeroy-Mennecy (1735-1777)." CeramicAntica, no. 9 (October 2000). p. 26, 27, 31
  • Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
  • {{cite web|title=Bowl|url=false|author=Mennecy Factory, Mennecy- Villeroy Factory|year=c. 1765|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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