Wine glass cooler (seau à verre)

Vincennes Manufactory

1754 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This deep blue ground color was known at Vincennes as bleu lapis or lapis blue, named after the mineral lapis lazuli, long prized for the intensity of its color. Most ground colors were applied over the glaze once it had been fired; in contrast, blue lapis was applied and fired before the piece was glazed.

Artist

Vincennes Manufactory

Date

1754

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