Sugar Bowl
<p>Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds (<em>oiseaux</em>) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in <em>Histoire naturelle des oiseaux</em>, an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1781
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Lid: 3.9 × 11.5 × 11.5 cm (1 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Bowl: 8.3 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 × 4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1781
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Lid: 3.9 × 11.5 × 11.5 cm (1 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Bowl: 8.3 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 × 4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1781-133003
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified