Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
date: label: Date
content: 1813
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
label: Painter
content: Pierre Huard, French, active 1811–1847
label: Possibly
content: Charles-Louis Constans, French, active 1804 – 1840
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval tray with raised and everted rim. Decorated with outer border of interlaced triangular geometric motifs in lapis blue against brown background, surrounded by thin gold rims; then a border of tooled gilding with 16 roundels painted in polychrome of exotic birds, alternating with the smaller roundels with butterflies. Around central oval a wide band of trompe-l'oeil coffering. Center painted with arrangement of seashells, coral, and pearls against a faux marble background.
place: label: manufactured in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Katrina H. Becker in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Hickox
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-38-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: tray
label: Type
content: tray
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 2.2 x 42.8 x 34cm (7/8 x 16 7/8 x 13 3/8in.)