Sugar Bowl
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Lid: 3.9 × 11.5 × 11.5 cm (1 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Bowl: 8.3 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- sugar bowl
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
sugar bowlporcelaineuropean decorative artshard-paste porcelainceramicsinorganic materialteawareceramic
About
Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds (oiseaux) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.
