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

Plate (Assiette) (c. 1775) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sceaux Factory (French, active 1748–66).

The work and its context

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

In an effort to remain competitive in the porcelain market, European porcelain factories borrowed motifs, designs, and techniques from one another. Though this plate was produced at the Sceaux porcelain factory, its painting of two putti lounging on a bank of clouds likely took inspiration from the work of François Boucher, who worked at the Vincennes-Sèvres factory in the mid-1700s.

Object facts

• Title: Plate (Assiette)
• Date: c. 1775
• Creator attribution: Sceaux Factory (French, active 1748–66)
• Culture: France
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1964.515.1

A detail from the museum

This plate is painted en camaïeu, a technique popular in 18th-century porcelain in which several tints of a single color are used to create a monochromatic image.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

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.