Sugar basin and cover from a dejeuner, Sevres Factory

An image of Sugar basin and cover/Pot à sucre Hébert from a dejeuner. Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Vielliard, André-Vincent (French, 1717-90, act.1752-1790). Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting overglaze in blue, several shades of green yellow, pink, red, pale purple, pale and dark brown enamels, and gilding. The basin bears the date letter for 1759 but the object may have been made in 1760. French. Rococo.

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Sugar basin and cover/Pot à sucre Hébert from a dejeuner. Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Vielliard, André-Vincent (French, 1717-90, act.1752-1790). Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting overglaze in blue, several shades of green yellow, pink, red, pale purple, pale and dark brown enamels, and gilding. The basin bears the date letter for 1759 but the object may have been made in 1760. French. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.20.4 & A-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 857 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 679.38kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2009:05:11 14:53:56

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