Ewer and Basin (Pot a l'Eau et jatte Feuille d'Eau)
Jean-Claude Duplessis
1756–1760
- Medium
- Enameled and gilded soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- Ewer: 17.8 × 13.1 × 7.7 cm (7 × 5 1/8 × 3 in.); Basin: 5 × 30.2 × 23.2 cm (1 15/16 × 11 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- ewer (vessel)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
porcelainTablewareeuropean decorative artsewer (vessel)soft-paste porcelainvesselceramicsinorganic materialRocococeramic
About
Modeled with water lilies in relief, this rare ewer and basin set blends Rococo sensibility, with its emphasis on forms borrowed from nature, with the plastic potential of porcelain.
