Cabbage-Leaf Cup and Saucer (gobelet et soucoupe feuille de choux)

Cabbage-Leaf Cup and Saucer (gobelet et soucoupe feuille de choux)

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 | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Flowers in art

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

35mm color slide of a cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The décor on this piece is known as feuille de choux (cabbage-leaf). Rosalind Savill suggests that the term feuille de choux refers not only to the white reserves, which are shaped like cabbage leaves, but also to the lobed edges of the saucer. The white reserves on both objects are painted with multicolored floral bouquets, and edged with feathered “shell-like” gilding. The cup has a gilt dentil rim. The pale turquoise ground color is considered unusual; Savill identifies it as the ground color known as petit verd (little green), introduced around 1760 (Savill 1988, 2:536, 555–56, 3:1175). The number 34 is handwritten on the slide.

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

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18th century (date of object)

20th century (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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English | French

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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