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Design for a Painted Porcelain Scalloped Salad Bowl, for Sèvres Porcelain Manufactury
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactoryca. 1775
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Salad bowl in elevation (above) and plan (below) with scalloped body and rim. The rim is bordered with blue and gold; the shallow base in blue. Exterior and interior of bowl is decorated with sprays of roses, ranuculusses, and colored daisies.
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- Title: Design for a Painted Porcelain Scalloped Salad Bowl, for Sèvres Porcelain Manufactury
- Creator: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
- Creator Lifespan: 1738
- Date Created: ca. 1775
- Physical Dimensions: w323 x h450 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: Giovanni PiancastelliMr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee
- Markings: Watermark: D C BLAUW, similar to Churchill 328; Stamp: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in black, upper right corner, lower edge center, verso: Lugt 457d
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: N° 7 hauteur du Saladier dit Verdun; along lower right edge: N° 7 Saladier dit Verdun. 1re grandeur 48".; in graphite, right edge, center: 20; in graphite, lower right corner, verso (up-side-down): P. 15
- Exhibitions: London - Victoria & Albert Museum, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper Hewitt Collection, New York, June 13 - August 12, 1973, no. 143; traveled to Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Museum, December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.San Francisco, CA - M.H. De Young Museum, Continental Porcelains of the Eighteenth Century, October 25 - December 6, 1965, no. 264.
- Dimensions: 45.0 x 32.3 cm (17 11/16 x 12 11/16 in. )
- Bibliography: Elaine Evans Dee, The American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973), p. 61, no. 143 (illus.).
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