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Tea service with tray (déjeuner Bolvry)
Sèvres, 1779 tray, design: Charles François Bolvry (c. 1740-after 1806), painted decoration: Fallot, gilding: Henri Martin Prévost, painted and gilded hard-paste porcelain
The Sèvres factory succeeded in making true hard-paste porcelain containing kaolin (white clay) only in 1769. Many new patterns were developed for this kind of porcelain. The painted decoration of this service was influenced by patterned calico fabric (chintz) from India and by enamel from China.
- Artwork typeplatter
- Object numberBK-1965-102-E-II
- Dimensionsheight 3.3 cm x diameter 12.6 cm, diameter 8.2 cm