Cleveland Museum of Art

Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

Date

1745–48

Medium

soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Culture

France, Vincennes

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. 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.

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