Mark for Plate with Braided Décor (assiette à cordonnet, slide 8)

Mark for Plate with Braided Décor (assiette à cordonnet, slide 8)

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 | Porcelain—Marks

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain marks

35mm color slide of a porcelain mark on the plate in Slide 8. The mark is composed of a pair of blue, interlaced Ls (one facing forward, the other reversed), which represents the French royal monogram, and corresponds to the factory mark for soft-paste at both the Vincennes and Sèvres Manufactories from approximately 1750 to 1793. The fuzzy outlines of this mark might be explained by the fact that it may have been placed on the plate before the glaze, as was characteristic of pieces painted with bleu lapis ground color (lapis blue); this caused marks to run at the edges (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 145). The number 8 is handwritten on the slide.

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

ca. 1752 (date of object)

October 1984 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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