Compotier carré (part of a service) 1790

Soft paste porcelain, yellow ground and gilded decoration | 4.2 x 21.2 x 21.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 11128

Sèvres porcelain factory

Sèvres porcelain factory

Part of a service 1790

Description

Soft paste Sèvres porcelain square shaped fruit dishes. Creamy yellow ground painted with trails and bunches of lilac on white ground edged with blue lines and narrow borders of stylised foliate trails in blue and mauve.

Provenance

These fruit dishes are probably survivors from a service of 79 pieces which were recorded in the Carlton House Inventory of 1792. This service was almost certainly sold to George IV by Dominique Daguerre in 1790.
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection Sèvres porcelain factory
(porcelain manufacturer)

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(nationality)

Acquirer(s)

Search the collection View the person page George IV, King of the United Kingdom (1762-1830)
Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Soft paste porcelain, yellow ground and gilded decoration

soft paste porcelain

Measurements

4.2 x 21.2 x 21.2 cm (whole object)
Groupings
Category
Ceramics
Object type(s)
containers
culinary containers
vessels for serving or eating
dishes
fruit dishes
Subject(s)
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Botany
Systematic botany
Trees
Lilacs
References

Other number(s)

FP : de Bellaigue, G., 2009. French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. 3 vols., London – FP II.171
Places

Place of Production

Sèvres [France]