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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl

This is a drawing. It was possibly by Jacques-François Micaud and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated ca. 1763 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and black ink, watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

46.7 × 30.8 cm (18 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, verso, Lugt no. 457d: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration Watermark: D & C BLAUW under a horn in an escutcheon, surmounted by a crown (Churchill 329)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: N° 9 hauteur du Saladier uni que grandeur; in graphite, lower right corner: 3

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl; Possibly by Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; brush and black ink, watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper; 46.7 × 30.8 cm (18 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8310

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