Punch Bowl

jatte à punch

Made at: Sèvres Manufactory (France)
Decorated by: Antoine-Joseph Chappuis, jeune âiné (French, active at Sèvres 1756–87)

French

1779

Object Place: Europe, France

Medium/Technique Soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gold

Dimensions Overall: 13.8 x 34.2 cm (5 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession Number65.1864

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope

ClassificationsCeramics – Porcelain

DescriptionA broad register of a blue-green ground covers the upper two-thirds of the large circular bowl. The ground is puntuated alternately with oval reserves decorated with two birds in a landscape and smaller oval reserves containing two butterflies. The larger reserves are framed by scrolling gilt bands that extend beyond the reserve on either side to enclose elaborately tooled medallions and garlands of leaves. A gilt band of leaves and berries serves as the lower border of each larger reserve. The smaller reserves are framed by two gilt bands. A gilt band serves as the lower border of the green ground, and a gilt band encircles both the foot ring and the rim of the bowl.

Marks interlaced Ls enclosing date letters bb, painter's mark cp for Antoine-Joseph Chappuis jeune, aine, above, all in black enamel

InscriptionsBottom of the bowl is inscribed in blue enamel: Coucou de Cayenne./Tiran du brésil.; Faisan de la Chine,/et Sa Femélle.; Kakatois des Moluques./toucan a gorge rouge de Cayenne.

ProvenanceMade for Comte d'Artois. By 1948, Jean Nicolier, Paris; June 17, 1948, Jean Nicolier sold to Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)