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Source Description
Thos tray is decorated with fanciful scenes of China, a dominant theme in French 18th-century art that reflects the fascination, fear, and awe of that country at the time. The scene was painted by Michel-Louis Chauveaux (active 1773–82). Jean Chauvaux the Younger decorated this white ground, hard-paste porcelain tray with a fanciful pseudo-Chinese scene, in which a woman holding an apple with one hand gestures with the other toward a prostrate youth at her side. Chauvaux might have drawn his inspiration for the scene from the work of François Boucher.
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Document identity
localId
11907
label
Tray
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
11907
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Tray
description
Thos tray is decorated with fanciful scenes of China, a dominant theme in French 18th-century art that reflects the fascination, fear, and awe of that country at the time. The scene was painted by Michel-Louis Chauveaux (active 1773–82). Jean Chauvaux the Younger decorated this white ground, hard-paste porcelain tray with a fanciful pseudo-Chinese scene, in which a woman holding an apple with one hand gestures with the other toward a prostrate youth at her side. Chauvaux might have drawn his inspiration for the scene from the work of François Boucher.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1776
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
trays
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
24
height
38.5
depth
4
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 7/16 × W: 15 3/16 × D: 1 9/16 in. (24 × 38.5 × 4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: Y (1776); [Gilder's Mark] IN (Chauvaux jeune); crown
med
hard paste porcelain with gilding and enamels
creator_ids
2748
1916
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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93ebc97a07c59cdd
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no
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no
seq
2
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photo
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69e891be50c29578
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no
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no