France, Vincennes / 1745–48
Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre) as ceramic (France, Vincennes · 1745–48).
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.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this ceramic as soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and credits Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1740–1756).
The museum's collection notes: 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.
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