Cleveland Museum of Art
Plate (Assiette)
Sceaux FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-9a6b899fddc4
- Date
- c. 1775
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 141291
What the image shows
A decorative plate with a scalloped edge featuring cherubs in a cloud motif.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In an effort to remain competitive in the porcelain market, European porcelain factories borrowed motifs, designs, and techniques from one another. Though this plate was produced at the Sceaux porcelain factory, its painting of two putti lounging on a bank of clouds likely took inspiration from the work of François Boucher, who worked at the Vincennes-Sèvres factory in the mid-1700s. This plate is painted en camaïeu , a technique popular in 18th-century porcelain in which several tints of a single color are used to create a monochromatic image.
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- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Provenance
- R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
18th Century Porcelain FigurinesThese objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse
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