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- Christophe-Ferdinand Caron (1774 - 1831)
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- Place of Birth: Saint-Cloud, France
- Place of Death: Sèvres, France
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- Cup and Saucer
- Gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe of the first size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1792
- C355
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- Bookmarkable URLFrom the 1760s there was a fashion for collecting cups and saucers for display rather than use, and these elaborately decorated pieces were probably made for that purpose. It is indeed a measure of the success of Sèvres that domestic items were considered works of art.
The pieces show scenes from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' which are based on engravings after François Boucher: Venus and Adonis on the cup and Venus and Mars on the saucer. They were painted by Christophe-Ferdinand Caron (op. 1791/2-1815) and the wonderfully detailed gilding is by Etienne-Henry Le Guay (op. 1742-3, 1748-9, 1751-96), who was Sèvres’ most talented gilder despite having lost his left arm in a battle.
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