Cup and Saucer
date: label: Date
content: 1787
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
label: Painter
content: Antoine Buteux (le fils), French, 1759 – 1784
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Short, cylindrical cup (a) with scroll handle; enamel and gilded decoration consisting of gilt dots picked out in black, on blue ground; large, central, gilt-bordered oval cartouch with spray of three tulip blooms (red/cream, yellow/red, purple/cream) tied with pink ribbon; narrow gilt bands at mouth and base. Saucer (b) with everted rim decorated en suite with cup, the circular well with spray of vari-colored, petalled flowers tied with yellow ribbon.
place: label: Place
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: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-25-16-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