Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)
Medium
soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
Dimensions
part 1: 8.1 × 16.2 cm · whole: 15.3 × 16.2 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1944.225
Tags
gender unknown
About this artwork
This covered bowl, likely intended for sugar, is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain, a reputed French factory moved to Sèvres in 1756. The continuous landscape is painted on this object en pointillé, a method by which a painter forms images with tiny dots. This style may have been influenced by their German competitors at the Meissen Porcelain Factory.