Ewer and basin (pot à la Romaine uni et jatte ovale)
Vincennes Manufactory
1754–55 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The form of this ewer and basin is based on contemporary French silver examples. Silver, the more expensive medium, frequently provided the model for the forms of French porcelain in the eighteenth century.
- Artist
- Vincennes Manufactory
- Date
- 1754–55
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- French, Vincennes
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
