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Gilt And Blue Bowl And Stand
Gilt And Blue Bowl And Stand
Gilt And Blue Bowl And Stand

Gilt And Blue Bowl And Stand

Manufacturer (France, founded 1745)
DateEarly 1750s
Object NameBowl
Mediumporcelain
ClassificationsCeramics
DimensionsBowl: 10 x 16.1cm
Stand: 4 x 25.4cm
AcquisitionCochrane Collection, presented in 1995 with assistance from the National Art Collections Fund.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS024678
About MeAt around the time this bowl and stand were made 'Vincennes', as Sèvres was then known, was moved by Madame Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV, to be closer to Versailles, the royal palace of the French Monarchy.

It is from this period that Sèvres really began to flourish, producing very high quality ceramic items in soft and eventually hard porcelain and so rivalling and then overtaking the German porcelain manufacturer, Meissen.