Ewer and Basin (Pot a l'Eau et jatte Feuille d'Eau)

c. 1756–1760

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, founded 1740)
Probably designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis (French, c. 1695–1774)

Modeled with water lilies in relief, this rare ewer and basin set blends Rococo sensibility, with its emphasis on forms borrowed from nature, with the plastic potential of porcelain.

Status: On View, Gallery 234
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Jean-Claude Duplessis (Designer)
Title: Ewer and Basin (Pot a l'Eau et jatte Feuille d'Eau)
Place: Sèvres (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1756–1760
Medium: Enameled and gilded soft-paste porcelain
Inscriptions: Mark: impressed ## on base of ewer
Dimensions: Ewer: 17.8 × 13.1 × 7.7 cm (7 × 5 1/8 × 3 in.); Basin: 5 × 30.2 × 23.2 cm (1 15/16 × 11 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Harry and Maribel G. Blum, Annette M. Chapin, and Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial endowment funds
Reference Number: 1984.821a-b
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Sotheby’s London, “Continental Ceramics,” sale catalogue, June 12, 1984, lot 215, 118–119 (ill.).
AIC, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1984–85, color plate #6 (ill.).

AIC, “Eighteenth-Century French Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain,” 5/18/1995–3/30/1997

Lord Hillingdon; sold, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, March 25, 1968, lot 67. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 12, 1984, lot 215. Armin B. Allen, Inc., New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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