Pitcher (broc ordinaire)

Dublin Core

Title

Pitcher (broc ordinaire)

Subject

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 | Pitchers—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Landscapes on porcelain—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Plants in art | Flowers in art | Trees in art | Fruit in art | Grapes in art | Agriculture in art | Harvesting—Pictorial Works | Vielliard, André-Vincent —Pictorial works

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | pitchers (vessels) | gilding-technique | porcelain painting (image-making) | landscapes (representations) | flower (motif) | trees | fruit (plant components) | grape (berry fruit) | farming (activity or system) | harvesting

Description

35mm color slide of a pitcher (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This type of pitcher is known as a broc ordinaire, which refers to a pitcher without a cover, in contrast to the covered style known as broc couvert (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 232). The body is dominated by a large painted reserve depicting a grape harvest (basket of grapes, various implements, vineyard in the distance). The overall white ground is adorned by a honeycomb of repeated hexagonal cells, consisting of tiny dotted red and blue circles, some of which are punctuated by a gilded central dot. This gilded-dot style is usually called œil de perdrix (partridge-eye), and sometimes termed fond Taillandier, but some scholars argue that the latter term is often erroneously applied (Savill 1988, 3:1175–76; Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 209, 382). The pitcher has the painter’s mark for André-Vincent Vielliard the elder (1717–90; active 1752–90; known as Vielliard père or Vielliard aîné, sometimes spelled Vieillard), who was one of the most prolific and well-known painters at Vincennes and Sèvres (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 97; Savill 3:1074). The number 30 is handwritten on the slide.

Find more details on œil de perdrix, Vielliard, and painters’ marks in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.

Creator

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

Publisher

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

Date

18th century (date of object)
March 1979 (date of slide)

Contributor

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

Rights

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Format

application/jpg

Language

English | French

Type

still image

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.

Citation

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object), “Pitcher (broc ordinaire),” Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2940.