Browse Items (72 total)

Fritzsche_Slide_23b.jpg
35mm color slide of a white teapot and cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Each is adorned with blue painted flowers and white flowers in relief. Dawson describes this décor as “molded in relief with prunus” and notes that the prunus decoration “is…

Fritzsche_Slide_23_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of two porcelain marks for the teapot and cup in Slides 23a and 23b. The painter’s mark on the teapot is for Charles Buteux, known as Buteux père or aîné (the elder) (1719–82, active 1756–82), a painter and gilder, whose mark was an…

Fritzsche_Slide_24.jpg
35mm color slide of two plates (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Each plate has a white ground color, encircled by a broad ribbon of gilt-trimmed green, known as a “green riband” (ruban vert). Within the curves of the ribbon are festoons of painted,…

Fritzsche_Slide_25_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark. The mark is for Vincent Taillandier (1736–90; active 1753–90), a “painter, gilder, and burnisher” (Savill 1988, 3:1068; Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 154 no. 192, 173n192). The number 25 is handwritten on the…

Fritzsche_Slide_26.jpg
35mm color slide of a tray (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Against a white ground color are paintings of intertwined foliage at the center and along the gilded, scalloped edges. The tray has the painter’s mark for Louis-Jean Thévenet, also known as…

Fritzsche_Slide_27.jpg
35mm color slide of a tea (or coffee) service consisting of a square tray and matching cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The cup’s rim is gilded with a dentil pattern. Both tray and cup are decorated with small blue-and-white vignettes, featuring…

Fritzsche_Slide_27_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the tray and cup in Slide 27 (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The mark is for Louis-Jean Thévenet, also known as Thévenet père (the elder; b. 1707–d. after 1778; active 1741–1777), who was one of the “most…

Fritzsche_Slide_28.jpg
35mm color slide of a Calabre teapot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The théière Calabre (Calabre teapot) was named in honor of Pierre Calabre, one of the factory’s shareholders, and later became “the most commonly made of all Sèvres teapots” (Dawson…

Fritzsche_Slide_28_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the Calabre teapot in Slide 28. This is the painter’s mark for Antoine-Joseph Chappuis, known as Chappuis aîné (the elder; 1743–87; active 1756– or 1761–87), who specialized in birds, landscapes, and flowers…

Fritzsche_Slide_29.jpg
35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The cup and saucer both have a blue ground decorated with stylized white bellflowers and other undulating designs, trimmed with gilding. The cup is an example of a gobelet…
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2