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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Cooler for Wine Bottle and Glasses
This is a Drawing. It was company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory and possibly by Jacques-François Micaud. It is dated 1765–75 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In 18th-century France, tableware became more use-specific. This bowl was designed to chill and rinse stemmed wine glasses. Glasses were inverted in the dish so that their bases rested on the bowl’s indentations and their cups in the water. The elegance of this wine-glass cooler suggests it would have been on prominent display.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques Cabinet
- mahogany, platinum, glass, bronze, gold, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Bequest of the Reverend Alfred Duane Pell.
- 1991-31-2
- Salad Bowl Bowl
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold.
- The John Jay Ide Collection.
- 1963-75-1
- Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)...
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold.
- Gift of Katrina H. Becker in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V.....
- 1981-38-2-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Red Face Cup
- enameled, gilt and silvered porcelain.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-61
- Trade Catalog, Designs of Sundry Articles of Queen's or Cream-colour'd...
- engraving, paper.
- Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- SIL39088000440693
- Drawing, Study of Two Roses
- brush and gray wash, brush and black ink on heavy cream paper, lined.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1925-1-349
Its dimensions are
27.1 x 41.4 cm (10 11/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: D C BLAUW (similiar to Churchill 328)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, below image: No 10. Seau Crènelé pour contenir verres et liqueurs 120."; lower left: Anse du dt Seau.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Cooler for Wine Bottle and Glasses; Possibly by Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream laid paper; 27.1 x 41.4 cm (10 11/16 x 16 5/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8316
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
