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Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)
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These dishes may have supported cups of sweet ices or pyramidal displays of fruits or sweetmeats as part of a dessert or tea service. On the reverse of the plate the two birds pictured are identified as a Petit Perruche, du Pérou (budgerigar from Peru) and Harle huppé, Mâle (male red-breasted merganser.) Their images were modeled after engravings in naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc’s Natural History of Birds , a book which regularly inspired Sèvres porcelain paintings in the 1780s and 90s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFooted Dish (soucoupe à pied), 1786. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), Etienne Evans (French, 1733–1806). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration; diameter: 4 x 22.4 cm (1 9/16 x 8 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1983.55
