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Plate (Assiette)
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About this work
As European porcelain production advanced, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. Paintings of one to two figures perched on a rock or small hill overlooking a pastoral landscape were regularly reproduced on tea services fabricated at the Mennecy porcelain factory. These compositions were likely inspired by similar landscapes painted on porcelain at the Vincennes factory.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePlate (Assiette), c. 1760–65. Mennecy Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; diameter: 24.3 cm (9 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1954.5
