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Covered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre)
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About this work
This covered bowl, likely intended for sugar, is one of the earliest surviving examples of Vincennes porcelain, a reputed French factory moved to Sèvres in 1756. The continuous landscape is painted on this object en pointillé , a method by which a painter forms images with tiny dots. This style may have been influenced by their German competitors at the Meissen Porcelain Factory.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCovered Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre), 1745–48. Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1740–1756). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; part 1: 8.1 x 16.2 cm (3 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.225
