Plate (Assiette à cordonnet) (c. 1752): Art, History and Details

Plate (Assiette à cordonnet) (c. 1752) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756).

The work and its context

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

The paintings and designs of François Boucher were reproduced regularly at the Vincennes Porcelain Factory. This image of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and revelry, depicted on this plate in the form of a winged cupid, was likely inspired by Boucher’s models. Representations of children in monochromatic color schemes, as seen here, were known in France as enfants camïeux and popularly decorated 18th-century French porcelain.

Object facts

• Title: Plate (Assiette à cordonnet)
• Date: c. 1752
• Creator attribution: Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756)
• Culture: France, Sèvres
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1962.358

A detail from the museum

Madame de Pompadour, official mistress of French King Louis XV, bought 36 plates with this form and type of decoration on May 23, 1753, attesting to its popularity among French royals.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50 (December 1963).

View the collection record

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