Manufacture révolutionnaire de Sèvres - pot à lait - forme étrusque ou hanap - porcelaine tendre

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Milk jug
Soft porcelain, painted and enhanced with gilding
Dimensions : H. 14 (cm.)
Sèvres circa 1790 - 1795

A charming Etruscan or Hanap milk jug decorated with gilding around the rim and a garland of cornflowers.

Etruscan shapes at Sèvres
From 1779 onwards, Angivillier was responsible for renewing the shapes of his pieces by using an antique repertoire. The finest example of this emulation is undoubtedly the commission for Marie-Antoinette at the Rambouillet dairy.

Condition report: unmarked, worn and cracked at the handle.

Bibliography: Un "air d'Antiquité". Le service de Sèvres réalisé pour la laiterie de Marie-Antoinette à Rambouillet, Selma Schwartz in Versalia, 2007

Illustration :Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Adélaïde Auguier, 1787, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum