Plate with Braided Décor (assiette à cordonnet)
Dublin Core
Title
Plate with Braided Décor (assiette à cordonnet)
Subject
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Vincennes—18th century—Slide collections | Vincennes porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Fruit in art | Insects in art
Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | fruit (plant components) | Insecta (class)
Description
35mm color slide of a plate (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). This object is called a “braided plate” (assiette à cordonnet) because the design imitates cord or braid, in this case on the gilded rim decoration (Dawson 1996, 60). The ground color along the rim is dark blue (known as bleu lapis). At the center of the white well is a painting of clustered fruit, with a few tiny insects scattered around it. The number 8 is handwritten on the slide.
Find more details on bleu lapis (lapis-lazuli blue) in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.
Creator
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Publisher
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
Date
ca. 1752 (date of object)
20th century (date of slide)
Contributor
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
Rights
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Format
application/jpg
Language
English | French
Type
still image
References
Spatial Coverage
France
Temporal Coverage
eighteenth century (dates CE)
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
slide, scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner at 3200 dpi.
Collection
Citation
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object), “Plate with Braided Décor (assiette à cordonnet),” Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accessed February 10, 2025, https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2906.