Sugar Bowl

Applied Arts of Europe

1781

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
French, founded 1740
Painted by Philippe Castel (attributed to)
French, 1772-1796

Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds (oiseaux) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (Manufacturer)
Title: Sugar Bowl
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.: 1781
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding
Dimensions: 11.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Uihlein through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1992.633a-b
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