Plate (Assiette)
manufacturer Mennecy Factory (French)
manufacturer Mennecy- Villeroy Factory (French)
c. 1760–65
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 24.3 cm (9 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, Mennecy, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
As European porcelain production advanced, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. Paintings of one to two figures perched on a rock or small hill overlooking a pastoral landscape were regularly reproduced on tea services fabricated at the Mennecy porcelain factory. These compositions were likely inspired by similar landscapes painted on porcelain at the Vincennes factory.
