Tray (plateau Courteille ou de chiffonière) Tray top
Bernard II van Risenburgh, Charles-Nicolas Dodin, André Laurent, and Sèvres Manufactory
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
In 1758 the Sèvres <term>porcelain</term> manufactory introduced this shape, designed to be mounted onto a small table. The manufactory named the form, described in the Sèvres archives as a <em>plateau de Courteille ou de chiffonière,</em> after the marquis de Courteille, one of <term>Louis XV's</term> <term>financiers</term>, who represented the king's interest at Sèvres from 1751.
The Sèvres artist Charles-Nicolas Dodin copied the scene from a painting by François Boucher onto the plaque. The original painting was set into wood paneling above a door in an important Parisian townhouse, the Hôtel de Soubise. It became one of Boucher's most popular scenes in the 1700s, known through many prints that circulated widely throughout Europe.
- Title: Tray (plateau Courteille ou de chiffonière) Tray top
- Creator: Bernard II van Risenburgh, Charles-Nicolas Dodin, André Laurent, Sèvres Manufactory
- Date Created: table about 1900; plaque 1761
- Location Created: Sèvres, France; Paris, France
- Physical Dimensions: 67 × 34.6 × 28.3 cm (26 3/8 × 13 5/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type: Furniture
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Painted oak carcass, with a top [removed] of soft paste porcelain, with a pink ground, polychrome enamel decoration and gilding; gilt bronze mounts
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 70.DA.85
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Carcass by an imitator of Bernard II van Risenburgh (French, after 1696 - about 1766, master before 1730) Porcelain painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (French, 1734 - 1803) copied from an engraving by André Laurent (1708 - 1747) Sèvres Manufactory (French, founded 1756)
- Classification: Decorative Art (Art Genre)
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