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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray, ca. 1750

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes and Jacques-François Micaud. It is dated ca. 1750 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.

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

Its dimensions are

52.4 x 34.4 cm (20 5/8 x 13 9/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Stamp: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in black, lower center right and lower right corner, verso: Lugt no. 457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: N° 1er./Terine ovale 2e Grandeur/prix avec le plateau 264."; center left: N°2/Plateau de la Saussiere/seul 18".; in graphite, lower left verso: P. 14

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray, ca. 1750; Attributed to French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); France; brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper; 52.4 x 34.4 cm (20 5/8 x 13 9/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8315

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