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Details
- Date
- 1771
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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cup 8.6 x 10.7 x 8.7; saucer 4.1 x 15.2 cm diam; combined 9.4 x 15.2 cm diam
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a - cup, 8.6 x 10.7 x 8.7 cm
b - saucer, 4.1 x 15.2 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2012.184.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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About
The socketed saucer (as distinct from the trembleuse, which is a saucer with a raised rim) was perhaps originally designed for Madame de Pompadour who, before her death in 1764, was the factory’s only recorded client for the shape.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 104 (colour illus.). cat.no. 138
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