Cover for a Sugar Bowl (1745–48): Art, History and Details

Cover for a Sugar Bowl (1745–48) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1740–1756).

The work and its context

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

This covered bowl is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain. Its decorations, particularly the lacy borders, show the influence of Meissen porcelain, but an individual note is struck in the extreme delicacy and colorful restraint of the painting of the landscape scenes.

Object facts

• Title: Cover for a Sugar Bowl
• Date: 1745–48
• Creator attribution: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1740–1756)
• Culture: France, Vincennes
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.3 cm (6 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1944.225.b

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.