Centerpiece: The Scarf Dance (Surtout: Le jeu de l'écharpe)

Applied Arts of Europe

1901/02

Manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, founded 1740)
Designed by Léonard-Agathon van Weydeveld (French, born Belgian 1841-1923)
France, Sèvres

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (Manufacturer)
Title: Centerpiece: The Scarf Dance (Surtout: Le jeu de l'écharpe)
Place: France (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.: 1901–1902
Medium: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain and silver
Inscriptions: Mark: "SÈVRES" and "T / 1901"
Dimensions: 46 × 25.1 × 16.8 cm (18 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.106a-f

DAPA and Lynn Springer Roberts, “DAPA Interview: Lynn Springer Roberts,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. Vol. 6 (Autumn 1987): p. 84 (ill.).
Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), pp. 114 (detail), 115-16, 120-21 (ill.).
Ingelore Böstge and Emmanuelle Héran. Agathon Léonard: Le geste Art nouveau, [exposition] Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André-Diligent (Paris: Somogy editions d’art, 2003), pp. 49, 51-4 (ills.), 117.

1980, Sevres Porcelain, AIC, March 8-April 20.

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