Bouillard Cup and Saucer with Shell Décor (gobelet Bouillard et soucoupe, décor à coquille)

Bouillard Cup and Saucer with Shell Décor (gobelet Bouillard et soucoupe, décor à coquille)

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

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

35mm color slide of a Bouillard cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). These are adorned with an unusual blue shell decoration (décor à coquille). In her description of décor à coquille, Savill mentions this particular object in the Fritzsche collection as an example (1988, 2:537 no. C362, 2:543n38), noting that it bears the mark for Charles Louis Méreaud jeune (the younger; ca. 1735–80; active 1756–80).The gobelet Bouillard (Bouillard cup) was named after Antoine-Augustin Bouillard, a shareholder in the Vincennes and Sèvres factories. The number 38 is handwritten on the slide.

See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on shell décor, Méreaud, and Bouillard cups.

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

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18th century (date of object)

July 1986 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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