Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle)
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 3 × 10 × 7 1/2 in. (7.6 × 25.4 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
French, Sèvres
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, and Anonymous Gift, 1997
Accession Number
1997.518
About the Artist
Jean Jacques Lagrenée|Sèvres Manufactory · 1739–1821
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...