Two Eggcups (coquetiers à pied)

Two Eggcups (coquetiers à pied)

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Vincennes—18th century—Slide collections | Vincennes porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Eggcups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Flowers in art

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35mm color slide of two white eggcups (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). Red and yellow flowers are painted on the body, stem, and base of each eggcup. The rims are highlighted with gilding. Eriksen and De Bellaigue note that this type of eggcup with a foot (coquetier à pied) was easily broken, and so by 1756 the Vincennes Manufactory begin producing the more durable variety of eggcups without feet (1987, 305). The number 1 is handwritten on the slide.

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

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

ca. 1755 (date of object)

May 1990 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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English | French

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

slide, scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner at 3200 dpi.