Mark for Litron Cup (gobelet litron, slide 29)

Mark for Litron Cup (gobelet litron, slide 29)

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35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the litron cup in Slide 29. This is believed to be the mark for Fallot (active 1764–90), a “ground color worker, painter, gilder, burnisher, and enameller,” who is particularly known for inventing his own special form of blue ground color, known as bleu Fallot (Savill 1988, 3:1032; Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 153 no. 43). The number 29 is handwritten on the slide.

Find more on the litron cup and bleu Fallot in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.

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

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

c. 1764 (date of object)

July 1986 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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