Name/Title
Sèvres, Sugar & CreamerContext
French, ca. 1758. Sèvres sugar pot with top and creamer in blue, pink and white porcelain. Part of a coffee service including also a tray, coffee pot, 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.
The sugar pot and creamer bear the original Sèvres production marks and quality. The bucolic scenes depicted might be inspired by paintings of the French artists Jean-Antoine Watteau or François Boucher since many of their works were used by the Sèvres factory to ornate their porcelain production.
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