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Although a few Vincennes porcelain figures exist which are glazed, the royal factory adopted at an early date the practice of producing unglazed, biscuit figures which, because of the purity of their material, resemble marble figurines. The fashion for biscuit figures first introduced at Vincennes quickly spread through Europe.
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Document identity
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136533
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Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)
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136533
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object
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Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)
description
Although a few Vincennes porcelain figures exist which are glazed, the royal factory adopted at an early date the practice of producing unglazed, biscuit figures which, because of the purity of their material, resemble marble figurines. The fashion for biscuit figures first introduced at Vincennes quickly spread through Europe.
date
1748–52
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60762012
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11807
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1888
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 21.6 x 14 x 8 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
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France, Vincennes
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1961.10.1
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unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain)
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Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse), 1748–52. Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56), Pierre Blondeau (French), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain); overall: 21.6 x 14 x 8 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1961.10.1
collection
Decorative Arts
formerAccessionNumbers
61.10
citations
citation
Chavagnac, Xavier Roger Marie, and Gaston Antoine Grollier. <em>Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine</em>. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1906.
page_number
p. 268
citation
Guérinet, Armand, ed. <em>Les Biscuits de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, XVIIIe siecle & XIXe siecle</em>. Paris: A. Guerinet, 1910.
page_number
pl. 43, 35
citation
Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard.<em> Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle</em>. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913.
page_number
no. 173, pl. 4
citation
<em>Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres</em>. Vol. 1, <em>La Sculpture de 1738 à 1815</em>. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932.
page_number
p. 3, no. 192
citation
Zick, Gisela. "D'Après Boucher. Die Vallée de Montmorency und die europäische Porzellanplastik." <em>Keramos</em> 29 (July 1965).
page_number
p. 5, fig. 1a, b
citation
Dauterman, Carl Christian. <em>The Wrightsman Collection</em>. Vol 4, <em>Porcelain</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
p. 283, no. 115
citation
Préaud, Tamara. <em>Porcelaines de Vincennes: les origines de Sèvres. </em>Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1977.
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p. 159, 171
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Brunet, Marcelle, and Tamara Préaud. <em>Sèvres: des origines à nos jours</em>. Fribourg: Office du livre, 1978.
page_number
p. 227, no. 306
citation
Guillemé-Brulon, Dorothée. "Le Premier surtout de table en Biscuit de Sèvres." <em>L'Estampille</em> 173 (September 1984).
page_number
p. 42-45
citation
Kingery, W. D., and Pamela B. Vandiver. "A Boucher Soft-Paste Unglazed Bisque Sculpture - La Danseuse." <em>Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure, and Technology</em>. New York: Free Press, 1986.
page_number
p. 179-194
citation
Préaud, Tamara, and Antoine d' Albis.<em> La porcelaine de Vincennes</em>. Paris: A. Biro, 1991.
page_number
p. 174, no. 178
citation
<em>Versailles et les tables royales en Europe: XVIIème-XIXème siècles</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
page_number
p. 285-86
citation
Salmon, Xavier. <em>Madame de Pompadour et les arts</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002.
page_number
p. 485-87
creditline
The Norweb Collection
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2026-05-29 06:58:18.587000
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136533
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain)
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male
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