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Benjamin Franklin Medallion
35mm color slide of a white biscuit medallion (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This slide shows the verso of the Benjamin Franklin portrait in Slide 54a. It is inscribed in sepia ink with the date 1780 and the words: “Le docteur Franklin envoyé des…
Benjamin Franklin Medallion
35mm color slide of a white biscuit medallion (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The medallion depicts Benjamin Franklin in profile, sculpted in relief, and is based on a bust created ca. 1777 by the French sculptor Jean-Jacques Caffierri (1725–92),…
Chocolate Pot (chocolatière)
35mm color slide of a hard-paste chocolate pot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Colorful pink, red, and blue floral bouquets are painted against a white ground. The edges are gilded with foliage and other designs. The “underside of the cover” includes…
Ice Cream Cup (tasse à glace)
35mm color slide of an ice cream cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Against a greenish-blue ground color, circular white reserves contain paintings of a bird and a butterfly, but neither painting is fully visible on the slide. Surrounding the…
Litron Cup and Saucer with Chinoiserie Décor (gobelet litron et soucoupe, décor chinois)
35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Both cup and saucer have a white ground, painted with multicolored designs. The saucer depicts a butterfly, bird, and flowers, while the cup is adorned with a “chinoiserie”…
Litron Cup with Chinoiserie Décor (gobelet litron, décor chinois)
35mm color slide of a litron cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The cup has a white ground, painted with a multicolored “chinoiserie” scene, depicting a pagoda and two adult figures with a small child. The gobelet litron (litron cup) has a…
Mark for Bowl with Cover and Stand (écuelle, slide 50a)
35mm color slide of porcelain marks for the bowl in Slide 50. The marks are for Philippe Castel (active 1772–1797), a painter of birds, ornaments, and landscapes, and for Henri-Martin Prévost (active 1757–97), a gilder (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987,…
Bowl with Cover and Stand (écuelle), Detail
35mm color slide of a hard-paste, two-handled soup bowl with cover and stand (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is an enlarged detail of the “Bowl with Cover and Stand” (écuelle, slide 50a). “These scenes with exotic gentlemen in Turkish dress…
Bowl with Cover and Stand (écuelle), Detail
35mm color slide of a hard-paste, two-handled soup bowl with cover and stand (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is an enlarged detail of the “Bowl with Cover and Stand” (écuelle, slide 50a). “These scenes with exotic gentlemen in Turkish dress…
Bowl with Cover and Stand (écuelle)
35mm color slide of a hard-paste, two-handled soup bowl with cover and stand (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Both the bowl and cover have paintings in white reserves and extensive decorative gilding, including foliage and fan shapes. “These scenes…