Decorative Arts & Design
Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)
CeramicsMetalworkVessel
Details
- Author / creator
- Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756)
- Object type
- Ceramics
- Date or period
- 1786
- Dimensions summary
- Diameter: 4 × 22.4 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Sèvres Porcelain Factory
- Period / style
- Neoclassical / Regency
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1983
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Signature and marks
[Painted in blue, beneath base]: "Harle hupé, Mâle"; [Incised twice]: "22"; [Interlaced Ls with date letter]: "ii"; Painter's mark of a dagger for Etienne Evans
