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Plate (Assiette)
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About this work
In an effort to remain competitive in the porcelain market, European porcelain factories borrowed motifs, designs, and techniques from one another. Though this plate was produced at the Sceaux porcelain factory, its painting of two putti lounging on a bank of clouds likely took inspiration from the work of François Boucher, who worked at the Vincennes-Sèvres factory in the mid-1700s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePlate (Assiette), c. 1775. Sceaux Factory (French, active 1748–66). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1964.515.1
