Name/Title
Sèvres, Coffee PotContext
French, ca. 1758. Sèvres coffee pot in blue, pink, and white porcelain. Part of a coffee ensemble including a tray, sugar and creamer, as well as a satin-linted traveling case.
The French royal manufactory at Sèvres became the most influential and prestigious porcelain factory in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. Its products were characterized by innovation in both form and decoration, and by a consistently high level of technical skill.
This coffee pot bears the original Sèvres production marks and quality. The bucolic landscape depicted reflects the ongoing popularity of "chinoiserie", a term used to describe the European fascination with an imagined and exotic Asia. In the eighteenth century objects in the chinoiserie taste were usually decorated with fanciful depictions of life in Asia as Europeans envisioned it. Especially the mountains in the background appear to be of asian inspiration.
Gift of Mrs. Leonidas T. Barrow.Acquisition
Accession
1969.01Source or Donor
Mrs. Leonidas T. Barrow (Laura Thomson)Acquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
In Mem of donor's mother, Laura Driscoll Thomson (Mrs. Henry D. ) of San Antonio