Cream jug

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sèvres, France, founded 17381813

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vase-shaped jug with broad everted lip and tall loop handle. Decorated en suite with set: five large roundels with birds, four with butterflies. Lip, handle and foot gilded. Shell motif painted below lip.

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Title: Cream jug
Creator: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sèvres, France, founded 1738
Date Created: 1813
Location Created: Sèvres, France
Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
Medium: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold leaf
Credit line: Gift of Katrina H. Becker in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Hickox

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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