Soup Plate presented to the Conde d’Aranda, Spanish ambassador to the French court, by King Louis XVI of France
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (Painted by Henry-Germain Boileau fils (French, active 1781-93); Sèvres, France)
1787
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 4 × 24.2 cm (1 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Sèvres
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The French royal porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, outside Paris, drew nobility, royalty, and other wealthy patrons from across Europe with the rich colors and lavish gilding of its fashionable wares. This dish is part of a much larger dinner service commissioned from the factory. Unequivocal statements of luxury and sophistication, these services epitomize the prestige of French design in Europe during the 1700s.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
