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Title
Two Wine Bottle Coolers (seaux à bouteille)
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 | Wine coolers—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Plants in art | Trees in art | Cherubs (Art) | Cupids (Art) | Telescopes—Pictorial works
Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | wine coolers (containers) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | plant-derived motifs | trees | putti (motifs) | cupids | telescopes
Description
35mm color slide of two wine bottle coolers (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The pale blue ground (bleu céleste) is punctuated by small white circles in a pointillé style: the white circles are bordered by darker, smaller blue dots. Although this has sometimes been termed fond Taillandier, some scholars argue that this is not the case (Savill 1988, 3:1175–76; Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 209, 382): “The documents … confuse the issue by describing pointillé grounds applied by Vincent or Geneviève as fond Taillandier” (Savill 1988, 3:1175). “The pattern of white circles on the bleu céleste ground may have been created by a resist method. This involved…placing dots of wax…where the white circles were to be and then powdering the rest with the turquoise pigment” (Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 209). The painted reserves depict cherubs in various poses. These reserves are framed by thick, burnished gilding and curving white bands, which are in turn adorned by garlands of laurel leaves and berries. Burnished gilding also accentuates both the rim and the molding of the scroll-shaped handles. The number 42 is handwritten on the slide.
Find more details on
pointillé and similar décor 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)
July 1986 (date of slide)
Contributor
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
Rights
These materials may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and learning purposes. If intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the sole responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate copyright permissions.
Language
English | French
Temporal Coverage
eighteenth century (dates CE)
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