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Stand for a butter tub or cheese tub
Made at: Vincennes Manufactory (France)
French
1755–56
Object Place: Europe, France
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding.
Dimensions
Other (Overall): 3.3 × 20.6 cm (1 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman
Accession Number34.1342
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionWhite center. Rim, dark blue (Bleu du roi) White reserves with with gold flowers and polychrome birds, one in center of well is holding a branch.
Marks
Interlaced Ls enclosing date letter C, a dot above, below, and to the sides of the Ls. incised "4"
InscriptionsPaper label of Laurent Curiosities, Paris.
ProvenanceLaurent Curiosities (dealer), 2 rue Meyerbeer, Paris. By 1911, Dudley Leavitt Pickman (b. 1850 - d. 1938), Boston [see note]; 1934, gift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 6, 1934)
NOTE: First lent to the MFA on May 19, 1911.
NOTE: First lent to the MFA on May 19, 1911.