# Bowl

- By: Mennecy Factory (French)
- By: Mennecy- Villeroy Factory (French)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The Norweb Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.509)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.509/1964.509_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.