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Sugar Bowl
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres1781
- Attribution
- Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, founded 1740 Painted by Philippe Castel (attributed to) French, 1772-1796
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding
- Physical dimensions
- 11.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. J. Uihlein through the Antiquarian Society
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Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds ( oiseaux ) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in Histoire naturelle des oiseaux , an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.
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