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Details
- Date
- 1776
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- canister 6.7 x 7.3 x 5.1 cm; cover 1.4 x 3.0 cm diam; combined height 7.9 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2012.188.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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About
The pale blue ground is a later variant of the turquoise blue ground colour (normally described in factory documents as ‘bleu céleste’) introduced in 1753. The piece bears on the base the red inventory number of the J Pierpont Morgan collection.
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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, 105 (colour illus.). cat.no. 142
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