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Design for a Painted Porcelain: "Cabbage Leaf" Salad Bowl, for Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory1760–75
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
View of salad bowl in elevation (above) and plan (below), painted on exterior and interior in form of large cabbage-like leaves, each leaf of which is bordered alternatively in blue and yellow/brown painted scallops. The reserves are painted with sprays of roses, tulips, colored daisies.
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- Title: Design for a Painted Porcelain: "Cabbage Leaf" Salad Bowl, for Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
- Creator: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
- Creator Lifespan: 1738
- Date Created: 1760–75
- Physical Dimensions: w391 x h453 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Giovanni Piancastelli. From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee.
- Paper Support: Cream laid paper
- Markings: Watermark: D C BLAUW, similar to Churchill 328; stamped in black, upper right center: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration; lower right corner, verso: Lugt 457d
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: N° 8 hauteur d'une Saladier feuilles de choux p're grandeur; along lower right edge, sideways: N° 8 hauteur d'une Saladier feuilles de choux p're grandeur. 60.; in graphite, lower left corner, verso (up-side-down): p. 16
- Exhibitions: Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts, "French Taste of the Eighteenth Century," April 17 - May 27, 1956.London, England - Victoria & Albert Museum, "An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper Hewitt Collection, New York," June 13 - August 12, 1973. Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Museum, "An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper Hewitt Collection, New York," December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.
- Dimensions: 45.3 x 31.7 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
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