Bowl
Mennecy Factory · c. 1765 · Cleveland Museum of Art
Guide
Adjust the guideNew to it · Medium
Looking for this guide.
From the museum
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. The Vincennes porcelain factory’s royally supported monopoly for the creation of porcelain that emulated the German style forced the Villeroy factory to relocate to Mennecy in 1748.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
What did you think?
Save this work’s image and museum information on this device to read without a connection.
Ask about this work
Ask in your own words. The answer comes from what the museum has written about the work, and says so when that does not hold it.
Details
- Maker
- Mennecy Factory (French), Mennecy- Villeroy Factory (French)
- Date
- c. 1765
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
