Sèvres
(France 1756– )
Cup and saucer (gobelet Bouillard)
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
This form of decoration in which the ground colour is covered with gilded discs (‘mouches d’or’) seems to have been especially popular c1767, though it was also revived in the 1780s.
- Year
- 1767
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- cup 6.1 x 9.2 x 7.2 cm; saucer 3.0 x 14.2 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.179.a-b
