Manufacture de Sèvres
Cup and Socketed Saucer
Artist
Manufacture de Sèvres
Sèvres, France, founded in 1756
Title
Cup and Socketed Saucer
Date
1768
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain, painted enamel decoration, gilding
Dimensions
Cup: 8.9 cm (h.), 8.8 cm (diam.); saucer: 3.2 (h.), 15.5 cm (diam.)
Publisher
Decoration attributed to Charles Buteux the elder (1719-1782) or Louis-Gabriel Chulot (active 1755-1799/1800)
Gilding: Jean-Pierre Boulanger the elder (1722-1785)
Credits
Purchase, inv. 1940.Dp.26a-b
Collection
Decorative Arts and Design
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