Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (La souffleuse de savon)
c. 1760–70
Medium
salt-glazed, transfer-printed stoneware
Dimensions
diam. 21 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson
Accession Number
1948.118
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
English potteries often courted aristocratic clients with cheaper wares that looked like more expensive works from the major centers of porcelain production in the eighteenth century, especially France, Germany, and China. In this case, the image printed in center of the plate depicts a young lady, enticing a boy with her skill at blowing soap bubbles through a thin pipe. The print was taken from an etching by Jean Daullé (French, 1703–1763), of the painting La souffleuse de savon (1758) by Fran...