Plate (Assiette) (c. 1775–90): Art, History and Details

Plate (Assiette) (c. 1775–90) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Arras Porcelain Factory (French).

The work and its context

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

The porcelain factory of Arras was founded in 1770 with the financial backing of the County of Artois. This plate, with its striking cobalt blue on a milky-white ground, was typical of its short-lived 20 years in porcelain production. The sprigs of stylized cornflowers that decorate the center of this plate, a motif known in France as barbeaux, were popularly reproduced on porcelain during the last quarter of the 1700s.

Object facts

• Title: Plate (Assiette)
• Date: c. 1775–90
• Creator attribution: Arras Porcelain Factory (French)
• Culture: France
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain
• Dimensions: Diameter: 24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1962.357

A detail from the museum

The barbeaux pattern was notably used by the Chantilly porcelain factory in the 1770s and was generally produced in either blue or green.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 50, No. 10 (December 1963).

View the collection record

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