Plate (Assiette) (c. 1757–60): Art, History and Details

Plate (Assiette) (c. 1757–60) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French).

The work and its context

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

This plate was originally part of a service owned by Don Filippo Infante, duke of Parma. Married to Marie Louise Élisabeth, the eldest daughter of Louis XV, the couple greatly patronized porcelain produced at the Chantilly factory. The basket weave border was a style inspired by models produced at the Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain factory which was, in turn, inspired by models produced at the Meissen factory in Germany.

Object facts

• Title: Plate (Assiette)
• Date: c. 1757–60
• Creator attribution: Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French)
• Culture: France, Chantilly
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 23.9 cm (9 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1964.503

A detail from the museum

The hatched border of this plate was likely produced by engine-turning, a process by which clay is turned on a rotating tool to produce fluted, geometric, and diced patterns.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Eriksen, Svend, ed. Le porcellane francesi a Palazzo Pitti. Florence: Scala, 1973.
• Le Duc, Geneviève. Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle: héritages des manufactures de Rouen, Saint-Cloud et Paris et influences sur les autres manufactures de XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Hazan, 1996.

View the collection record

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