Covered Sugar Bowl (Sucrier couvert), result 1 of 1

France, Vincennes, 18th century

Covered Sugar Bowl (Sucrier couvert)

Ceramic

1745- 1748

soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

This covered bowl is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain. Its decorations, particularly the lacey borders, show the influence of Meissen porcelain, but already, an individual note is struck in the extreme delicacy and coloristic restraint of the painting of the landscape scenes.

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Collection: Decorative Arts

Department: Decorative Art and Design

Gallery: 216A French and German

Provenance: formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Image and original data from The Cleveland Museum of Art