Plate (one of a pair)
ca. 1735–40
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain with gilding
Dimensions
Overall: 1 3/4 × 15 in. (4.4 × 38.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain-Export
Culture
Chinese, possibly for Scottish market
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1962
Accession Number
62.187.2
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer · 1636–1699
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who became the most distinguished and formative still life and flower painter of the French Baroque period. Born in Lille, he trained in Antwerp where he absorbed the techniques of Flemish masters before moving to Paris by 1650. Patronized by Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV's Minister of Arts, Monnoyer worked extensively on decorative pain...