Teapot (théière lizonnée à relief) and Cup (gobelet lizonné à relief sans soucoupe)

Teapot (théière lizonnée à relief) and Cup (gobelet lizonné à relief sans soucoupe)

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Ceramic teapots—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Teacups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Relief (Decorative arts)—France—18th century | Flowers in art | Buteux, Charles—Pictorial works

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | teapots | cups (drinking vessels) | gilding-technique | porcelain painting (image-making) | relief (sculpture techniques) | floral patterns | flower (motif)

35mm color slide of a white teapot and cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Each is adorned with blue painted flowers and white flowers in relief. Dawson describes this décor as “molded in relief with prunus” and notes that the prunus decoration “is based on Chinese eighteenth-century porcelain from Fukein province” (Dawson 1994, 85). Both have a gilt dentil rim. The teapot has a painter’s mark for Charles Buteux, known as Buteux père or aîné (the elder) (1719–82, active 1756–82), a painter and gilder, whose mark was an anchor. He specialized in trophies and attributes (Savill 1988, 3:1007–1009; Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 154 no. 200, 173n200; Tardy 1981, 530). The number 23 is handwritten on the slide.

Find more details on Buteux and painters’ marks in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.

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

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1758 (date of object)

March 1980 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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