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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Feuilles de Choux (Cabbage Leaves) Salad Bowl

This is a Drawing. It was company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory and possibly by Jacques-François Micaud. It is dated 1760–75 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

The cabbage-leaf shape of this design for a salad bowl is indicative of the ways tableware became use-specific in 18th-century France. Micaud’s elevation and plan views emphasize the intricate patterning for which Sèvres was famous, including sprays of roses, tulips, and colored daisies, and blue and yellow-brown painted scallops on the edges.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

  • Salad Bowl Bowl
  • soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold.
  • The John Jay Ide Collection.
  • 1963-75-1
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Its dimensions are

45.3 x 31.7 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: D C BLAUW, similar to Churchill 328; Stamp in black black ink, verso, upper right center, Lugt 457d: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: N° 8 hauteur d'un Saladier feuilles de choux p're grandeur; along lower right edge, vertically: N° 8 Saladier feuilles de Choux que. grandeur . 60"; in graphite, verso lower left: p. 16

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Feuilles de Choux (Cabbage Leaves) Salad Bowl; Possibly by Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper; 45.3 x 31.7 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8312

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.

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