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- Jacques-François Micaud (1732 - 1811)
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- Place of Birth: Villeneuve d'Aumont, France
- Place of Death: Sèvres, France
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- Gobelet 'Bouillard' et soucoupe of the first size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1767
- C357
- Back State Room
- Bookmarkable URLThe European cup for drinking tea evolved gradually during the first half of the eighteenth century, adapted from the Chinese porcelain tea bowls in which tea was originally drunk when it became fashionable in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. By 1752, the Vincennes manufactory (the early name for Sèvres) was making a wide range of tea wares, many models of the early 1750s remaining in production for the rest of the century, like this one, the ‘gobelet Bouillard’, which was introduced in 1753 and remained in production until the 1790s.
It was often part of a ‘déjeuner’ - a set of tray, cups, saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl - but was also sold in sets of matching cups and saucers.The model was probably named after Antoine-Augustin Bouillard, a fermier-général and dealer who was also one of the manufactory’s shareholders.
This cup and saucer are decorated with a frieze of garlands of roses, looped swags of leaves and berries, areas of sablé-gilded ground, and alternate stripes of blue lines and gilded dots.
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- Cup and Saucer
- Gobelet 'Bouillard' et soucoupe of the first size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1767
- C358
- Back State Room
- Bookmarkable URLThe European cup for drinking tea evolved gradually during the first half of the eighteenth century, adapted from the Chinese porcelain tea bowls in which tea was originally drunk when it became fashionable in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. By 1752, the Vincennes manufactory (the early name for Sèvres) was making a wide range of tea wares, many models of the early 1750s remaining in production for the rest of the century, like this one, the ‘gobelet Bouillard’, which was introduced in 1753 and remained in production until the 1790s. Slightly squat and round with a scroll handle, it was often part of a ‘déjeuner’ - a set of tray, cups, saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl - but could also be sold in sets of matching cups and saucers only. It was usually for tea (some examples have matching teapots) but could also be used for coffee. A plain shallow bowl saucer is paired with it.
An example for the ornate painted decoration of the later 1760s, this cup and saucer are decorated with an elaborate frieze of rose garlands entwined with swags of leaves and berries, sablé gilded ground, and a striped pattern framing gilded roundels.
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- Three Vases and Covers
- Vase 'console' of the first size and vases 'à pied de globe' or 'chinois' of the second size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1769
- C311-13
- Front State Room
- Bookmarkable URLThis garniture consists of two ‘vases à pied de globe’ or ‘chinois’ (for a detailed description of this model see C309) and a ‘vase console’, which derives its name from the scrolled consoles, linked by laurel swags, on the lower half.
All three pieces are decorated with a mid-blue ‘bleu Fallot’ ground, overlaid with a gilded pattern of circles and dots. This ground colour was probably named after its inventor, the Sèvres painter Jean-Armand Fallot (op. 1764-90) and is usually combined with ‘incrusté’ flower decoration, here in the form of garlands, which is directly painted into areas where the ground colour has been scraped away, creating an inlaid effect. The medallions were painted in grisaille by Jean-Baptiste Étienne Genest (op. 1752-89), head of the painters’ workshop, and feature figural scenes, cameo heads and trophies in the classical taste. The scene on C311 is from Antonio Tempesta’s engraving ‘Battle between the Greeks and the Amazons’ of 1600.
The vases were probably delivered to Versailles in December 1769, as part of a set of fifteen (the other vases are now at Waddesdon Manor, Luton Hoo and the Musée Condé). The set may have been dispersed at Louis XV’s annual New Year sale in 1770, where some of the vases were probably bought by the duc de Choiseuil.
The gilt-bronze stands and covers are later additions from the nineteenth century.
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