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Covered Cream Jug

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manufacturer

Niderviller Factory

(French)

France, 18th century

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration

Overall: 12.9 x 9.7 x 8.2 cm (5 1/16 x 3 13/16 x 3 1/4 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1983.65

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Cream jugs with lids or covers usually held warm cream for coffee or tea.

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed at lower right corner of trompe l'oeil print: Niderviller.

Niderviller Factory

Founded by Baron Jean-Louis de Beyerlé in 1754 near Sarrebourg in Lorraine with workmen from the Strasbourg factory, whose Rococo style it adopted.

Provenance

R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.

Citations

Hawley, Henry. "French Ceramics: The Norweb Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71 (January 1984). p. 14, fig. 17

Exhibition history

Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11, 1983-June 3, 1984).

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

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