Bowl (c. 1765): Art, History and Details

Bowl (c. 1765) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Mennecy Factory (French).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

As European porcelain production advanced over the course of the 18th century, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. This plate’s painted composition with two birds in the foreground, may have been inspired by bird paintings produced at the Vincennes porcelain factory beginning in the late 1740s.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl
• Date: c. 1765
• Creator attribution: Mennecy Factory (French)
• Culture: France, Mennecy, 18th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1964.509

A detail from the museum

The Vincennes porcelain factory’s royally supported monopoly for the creation of porcelain that emulated the German style forced the Villeroy factory to relocate to Mennecy in 1748.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 52 (November 1965).
• Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. "Fleurons méconnus de la manufacture de Villeroy-Menncy." L'Estampille, no. 350 (September 2000).
• Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. "Porcellane in 'gloria': la manifattura di Villeroy-Mennecy (1735-1777)." CeramicAntica, no. 9 (October 2000).

View the collection record

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