Sèvres Bowl

Object/Work🔺

• Catalog Level:🔺 item (value type: controlled list)
• Type🔺: bowl (value type: authority)
• Components/Parts-Quantity: 1 Type: bowl
  Components/Parts-Quantity: 1 Type: lid
  Components/Parts-Quantity: 1 Type: dish (value type: authority)

Classification🔺

• Terms:🔺
  ceramics
  decorative arts
  European Art (value type: controlled list)

Titles or Names🔺

• Text:🔺 Lidded Bowl on Dish (value type: free text)
  Preference: preferred (value type: controlled list)
  Type: repository

• Text:🔺 Lidded Bowl on Stand
  Preference: alternate
  Type: former

• Text:🔺 écuelle ronde et plateau rond
  Preference: alternate
  Language: French

Creation🔺

• Creator Description:🔺 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French porcelain manufactory, active from 1756 to the present); painted by Pierre-Antoine Méraud (French porcelain painter and gilder, ca. 1735-1791) (value type: free text)

• Identity:🔺 Méraud, Pierre-Antoine (_value type: authority)
  Role:🔺 painter

• Identity:🔺 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
  Role:🔺 factory

• Creation Date:🔺 1764 (value type: free text)
  Earliest:🔺 1764 Latest:🔺 1764 (value type: controlled format)

• Creation Place/Original Location: Versailles (Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France)(value type: authority)

Style/Period/Group/Movement

• Indexing Terms:
  Rococo
  Neoclassical (value type: authority)

Measurements🔺

• Dimensions Description:🔺 bowl: 12.4 x 19.7 x 15.2 cm (4 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 6 inches); stand: 21.1 cm (diameter) (8 3/8 inches) (value type: free text)

• Extent: bowl
  Value: 12.4 Unit: cm Type: height
  Value: 19.7 Unit: cm Type: width
  Value: 15.2 Unit: cm Type: diameter (value type: controlled format and controlled lists)

• Extent: stand
  Value: 21.1 Unit: cm Type: diameter

Materials and Techniques🔺

• Description:🔺 hard paste porcelain, enamel and gilding; silver mounts (value type: free text)

• Material Names:
  hard paste porcelain
  enamel
  silver
  gold (value type: authority)

Inscriptions/Marks

• Transcription or Description: Bowl incised: “DU” and “O”; dish incised: “I”; the bowl and dish are both painted in blue underneath with the factory mark of crossed “L”'s enclosing the date letter “L” for 1764, and with the painter’s mark “S” (value type: free text)

Subject Matter🔺

• Indexing Terms:🔺
  object (utilitarian)
  bowl
  Princess Louise (French princess and nun, 1737-1787)
  coat-of-arms
  Louis XV of France (French king, 1710-1774)
  monogram (value type: authority)

Descriptive Note

• Text: Madame Louise of France, the eighth daughter of the French King Louis XV, probably drank from this bowl. Known as an écuelle, it would have held bouillon, which is a light, nourishing broth taken as a snack between meals. Madame Louise’s monogram ML and the coat of arms of an unmarried royal princess are painted on the lid and dish. This bowl is an example of the restrained transitional style characteristic of the 1760s, when the effusive Rococo style was being replaced by the tenets of the new Neoclassical style. (value type: free text)

• Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online (value type: authority)
  Page: accessed 10 February 2005 (value type: free text)

Current Location🔺

• Repository Name/Geographic Location:🔺 Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) (value type: authority)
  Repository Numbers:🔺 78.DE.65 (value type: free text)

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Revised 23 July 2024
by Emily Benoff