Pot à lait à trois pieds: C.196-1918

Titles

Pot à lait à trois pieds
Translated as: three-legged milk jug

Maker(s)

Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter: Le Bel, jeune (Probably)

Entities

• Milk jug
• Teaware
• Factory name: pot à lait à trois pieds
• pot à lait à pieds

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Three-legged milk jug of soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with a trellis pattern, and gilded

Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with bluish-green ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink and mauve enamels, and gilding. The jug stands on three rustic feet. The bulbous body contracts into a short neck and flares upwards and outwards towards the notched rim which is elongated at the front to form a lip. The crabstock handle rises up from the rim and then downwards in a single loop until it meets the widest part of the body. Sprays of flowers and leaves sprout from the junctions of the legs and handle with the body. Encircling the body just above the legs and below the rim is an bluish-green zone, each decorated with a wavy continuous stem of gilt leaves flanked by gilt horizontal bands. Between these zones the ground is white. Under the spout is a motif comprising two intersecting vertical zig-zag lines of polychrome flowers and leaves, repeated three times more round the body, and alternating with a similar motif comprising intersecting zig-zag lines of pink and blue ribbons, the diamond-shapes between filled with a gold diaper pattern, and the ribbons outlined with gold dots. There are touches of gilding on the feet and handle, and on the relief flowers and leaves.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor, Ralph Hare Griffin (1854-1941)

Legal notes

Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA