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Sugar Bowl (pot à sucre)
This small sugar bowl, which would have originally had a matching lid, would have been used to hold refined, white sugar intended to be mixed with coffee or tea. It was likely part of a matching tea or coffee service that has since been lost. Picturesque landscapes rendered in blue camaieu with young, flesh-colored children ornament both sides of the bowl. François Boucher’s popular paintings of peasant children certainly inspired the bowl’s decoration. The top edge and foot are gilded in a scalloped pattern.
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Geographies
France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 7/16 × Diam.: 3 in. (6.2 × 7.6 cm).
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.732