Fruit or flower basket (corbeille aux cygnes)
Pierre-Louis Micaud|Sèvres Manufactory|Louis Martin Berthault
designed 1812, manufactured 1823 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Berthault, Malmaison’s garden architect and decorator of the greenhouse, designed this jardinière for Josephine in 1812 as a table centerpiece. To further enhance her dinner table, a richly gilded dessert service ornamented with botanical motifs was ordered from the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin during the city’s occupation by the French.
- Artist
- Pierre-Louis Micaud|Sèvres Manufactory|Louis Martin Berthault
- Date
- designed 1812, manufactured 1823
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain
- Culture
- French, Sèvres
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, by exchange, 1985
