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Details
- Date
- 1775
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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cup 7.7 x 9.9 x 7.5 cm; saucer 2.9 x 15.0 cm diam
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a - cup, 7.7 x 9.9 x 7.5 cm
b - saucer, 2.9 x 15 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2010.199.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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About
The scene on the cup is based on a design by Boucher recorded both in an etching by the artist and in a print by Gilles Demarteau. It seems unlikely that a cup so finely decorated was ever intended for use.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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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. 139
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