Cup and Saucer
date: label: Date
content: 1779–1787
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
label: Painter
content: André Vincent Vielliard (père), French, active 1752 – 1790
label: Possibly
content: Pierre-Théodore Buteux, French, active as painter 1765 – 1780; active as gilder 1773 - 1780
label: Painter
content: Antoinette-Marie Noualhier (née Huet), French, active 1762 – 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Short, cylindrical cup (a) with scroll handle; light blue enamel and gilded decoration consisting of overlapping semi-circular fan motifs with blue centers and gilded parallel lines, and narrow bands of gold oak leaves on blue diaper ground at mouth and base. Saucer (b) with everted rim decorated en suite with cup.
place: label: manufactured in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1983-35-2-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: cup and saucer
label: Type
content: cup and saucer
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: porcelain (probably soft paste), vitreous enamel, gold