Plate (Assiette) (c. 1785): Art, History and Details

Plate (Assiette) (c. 1785) 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 is part of a dinner service commissioned by Louis Joseph, duke of Bourbon, prince of Condé. Painted with his coat of arms, composed of three fleur-de-lys encircled by a cord holding up a pendant with the order of the Holy Spirit and surmounted by the prince’s own crown, this plate’s decoration reinforces the prince’s position as an elite member of the French royal court.

Object facts

• Title: Plate (Assiette)
• Date: c. 1785
• Creator attribution: Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French)
• Culture: France, Chantilly
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1964.504

A detail from the museum

The glaze of this plate contains tin, an early practice used at the Chantilly porcelain factory that counteracted the yellowish tint of the soft-paste porcelain with a white, opaque finish.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (1965): 124-57.
• Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin, Lille, and Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras. La porcelaine franc̜aise du XVIIIe siècle dans les musées du Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Lille: Edition de l'Association des conservateurs de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 1986.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Jeffrey H. Munger. The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992.

View the collection record

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