# Sugar Bowl and Stand

- By: Manufacture de porcelaine de Vincennes (French, founded 1740 (known as Sèvres from 1756))
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/68730)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/cacb9cf5-40e3-a12a-cd15-4ae8b26d729d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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