Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)

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Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)

Sèvres Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-b2a5e868c6d8

Date
1786
Medium
soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Culture
France, Sèvres
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
151490

These dishes may have supported cups of sweet ices or pyramidal displays of fruits or sweetmeats as part of a dessert or tea service. On the reverse of the plate the two birds pictured are identified as a Petit Perruche, du Pérou (budgerigar from Peru) and Harle huppé, Mâle (male red-breasted merganser.) Their images were modeled after engravings in naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc’s Natural History of Birds , a book which regularly inspired Sèvres porcelain paintings in the 1780s and 90s. The dark blue ground that rings the edge of this plate is known as beau bleu (beautiful blue) and derived its color from cobalt added to the enamel.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection
Provenance
R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.

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