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Source Description
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 <em>en pointillé</em>, 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.
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123676
label
Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)
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123676
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object
title
Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)
description
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 <em>en pointillé</em>, 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.
date
1745–48
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60741230
creators
301841
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
cul
France, Vincennes
accession
1944.225
Source extras
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soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
tombstone
Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre), 1745–48. Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1740–1756). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.225
collection
Decorative Arts
inscriptions
inscription
In red on bottom of bowl: P.M.
In red on interior of lid: P.M. 16 4.8B
didYouKnow
Three separate shades of purple, one of the most expensive colors to produce on porcelain during this time, are used extensively in this object’s paintings.
citations
citation
Morgan, J. Pierpont, and Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac. <em>Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan</em>. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910.
page_number
p. 49-50
citation
Alfassa, P., and Jacques Guérin. <em>Porcelaine française du XVIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: A. Lévy, 1931.
page_number
p. 45, plate 35B
citation
Foote, Helen S. “Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 9 (1944): 160–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141159.
page_number
p. 160-66
citation
Foote, Helen S. 1948. "Soft-Paste Porcelain of France."<em> Art Quarterly</em> 11, no. 4 (Autumn 1948): 335-347.
page_number
p. 339, 345-46
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 139
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 139
citation
Jedding, Hermann.<em> Europäisches Porzellan</em>. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
page_number
p. III/278
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 182
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, fig. 63
citation
Hawley, Henry. "Vincennees-Sèvres Porcelain at the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>Antiques</em> 85, no. 3 (March 1964): 322-325.
page_number
p. 322-23
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:22:18.209000
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123676
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
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gender unknown
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