Sugar Bowl and Stand
Manufacture de porcelaine de Vincennes (French, founded 1740 (known as Sèvres from 1756))
c. 1753
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue ground, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- Sugar Bowl: 12.7 × 15.9 × 12.3 cm (5 × 6 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.); Stand: 4 × 26.1 × 20.7 cm (1 9/16 × 10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Vincennes
- 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 museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Bleu lapis was one of the ground colors most often found on Vincennes and Sèvres porcelains. The simple contrast of this dark color and the brilliant white of the porcelain body, accented by gilded ornaments, created a rich and sophisticated decoration.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
