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Tasse à chocolat 1825
Hard-paste porcelain and burnished gold ground | 11.9 x 11.0 x 9.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 39911
Sèvres porcelain factory
Tasse à chocolat 1825
Sèvres porcelain factory
Master: Tasse à chocolat 1825
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The burnished gold ground, tooled with thick foliate scrolls, serves as a foil for the cup’s exceptionally rich decoration. It incorporates imitation jewels (rubies, garnets and emeralds) around reserves painted with hunting scenes and medallions of classical heads. In some scenes, putti are depicted preparing for the hunt, and, in others, returning home carrying dead game.
According to the Sèvres records, the cup and saucer were known in 1828 as Les Petits Chasseurs, from the hunting scenes painted in the two reserves on the cup, very likely after a design by the Sèvres painter Pierre Huard (active 1811-47)
Text adapted from French Porcelain for English Palaces, Sèvres from the Royal Collection, London, 2009Provenance
Probably acquired by Queen Victoria. Recorded in 1876 in the Drawing Room, First Floor, Osborne House: ‘No. 955 cup and saucer; Sèvres china, ornamented with Greek decorative patterns; on the cup, in medallions, a portrait of a Roman Empress, and groups of Cupids painted in imitation cameo. On the saucer, emblems of the chase in the centre medallion; and round the rim, Roman heads painted in cameo. Date, 1825’.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain and burnished gold ground
Measurements
11.9 x 11.0 x 9.2 cm (whole object)
2.5 x 15.6 cm (diameter)
Other number(s)
Alternative title(s)
Chocolate Cup and Saucer
Place of Production
Sèvres [France]
