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…
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground, accentuated by a stripe of dark blue near the rim. Burnished gilding accentuates both the rim and the molding of the scroll-shaped handles. Gilt foliage…
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler and a liqueur decanter cooler from the Asturias Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Both objects have a white ground with painted reserves, which depict military scenes. They are adorned with gilded…
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler from the Asturias Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground with painted reserves depicting military scenes. It is adorned with gilded foliage and polychrome bouquets. The handles, rim, and…
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler from the Asturias Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground with painted reserves depicting military scenes. It is adorned with gilded foliage and polychrome bouquets. The handles, rim, and…
35mm color slide of a liqueur decanter cooler from the Asturias Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is a side-view of the “Liqueur Decanter Cooler” (seau à topette, slide 49a). This was a gift from Louis XV to his granddaughter Marie Louise…
35mm color slide of porcelain marks for the liqueur decanter cooler in Slide 49a: a mark for Pierre aîné (the elder; active 1759–75), and a hatchet mark, which is the painter’s mark for Pierre-Joseph Rosset (active 1753–90). (See Tardy 1981, 559,…
35mm color slide of porcelain marks for the wine cooler in Slide 49a. These include a mark for Philippe Castel (active 1772–97), a painter of birds, ornaments, and landscapes (Savill 1988, 3:1013; Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 153 no. 22, 158n22).…