Louis Philippe Platter

Ceramic

Drexel Founding Collection

111 Photographed by Lynn (Clouser) Waddell 2013

Name/Title

Louis Philippe Platter

Entry/Object ID

111

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Mrs. George W. Childs, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 1911 Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George W. Childs Means of Accession: Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Sèvres Factory

Date made

1840

Place

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

22-1/4 in

Width

15 in

Depth

3/4 in

Material

Hard paste porcelain

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

This elaborately decorated tea service was made for the Tuileries Palace under the reign of Louis Philippe. The turquoise ground color is called “bleu celeste”, launched by the Sèvres Factory in 1753, and one of its most popular and longest lasting colored glazes.