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Sugar bowl and cover
Saint-Cloud Manufactory (France)
French
about 1740-1745
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain, enamel decoration
Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2012.612a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionSugar bowl and cover divided into four compartments with polychrome high-fire decoration in the Japanese "Kakiemon" style, featuring rocks, bamboos, hedges, and flowering blossoms (known as "à la haie fleurie," or "flowering hedge"), yet simplified in the Delft style.
InscriptionsPaper label on underside: "Collection G. Ephis"
ProvenanceGenevieve Le Duc (b. 1930), Paris. December 20, 1999, anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 85 (?),to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).