Bowl
manufacturer Mennecy Factory (French)
manufacturer Mennecy- Villeroy Factory (French)
c. 1765
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France, Mennecy, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
As European porcelain production advanced over the course of the 18th century, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. This plate’s painted composition with two birds in the foreground, may have been inspired by bird paintings produced at the Vincennes porcelain factory beginning in the late 1740s.
