Covered Sugar Bowl on Boat-Shaped Tray (sucrier couvert ovale adhérent à un plateau forme bateau)

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Dublin Core

Title

Covered Sugar Bowl on Boat-Shaped Tray (sucrier couvert ovale adhérent à un plateau forme bateau)

Subject

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Sugar bowls—France—18th century | Painted trays—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Plants in art | Cherubs (Art) | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | sugar bowls | trays | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | putti (motifs)

Description

35mm color slide of a covered sugar bowl on a boat-shaped tray (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 sometimes been termed fond Taillandier, some scholars argue that this is not the case (Savill 1988, 3:1175–76; Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 209, 382): “The documents … confuse the issue by describing pointillé grounds applied by Vincent or Geneviève as fond Taillandier” (Savill 1988, 3:1175). “The pattern of white circles on the bleu céleste ground may have been created by a resist method. This involved…placing dots of wax…where the white circles were to be and then powdering the rest with the turquoise pigment” (Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 209). The painted reserves contain a cherub and military trophies. These reserves are framed by thick, burnished gilding and curving white bands, which are in turn adorned by garlands of laurel leaves and berries. This object was painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734–1803; active 1754–1802), a painter whose “meticulous technique” was “unrivalled” at the porcelain factory (Savill 1988, 3:1029–30). The number 41 is handwritten on the slide.

Find more details on pointillé and similar décor, as well as on Dodin and painters’ marks, in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.

Creator

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

Publisher

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

Date

18th century (date of object)
July 1986 (date of slide)

Contributor

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

Rights

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Format

application/jpg

Language

English | French

Type

still image

Spatial Coverage

France

Temporal Coverage

eighteenth century (dates CE)

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

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

Citation

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object), “Covered Sugar Bowl on Boat-Shaped Tray (sucrier couvert ovale adhérent à un plateau forme bateau),” Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2955.