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Tray
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Thos tray is decorated with fanciful scenes of China, a dominant theme in French 18th-century art that reflects the fascination, fear, and awe of that country at the time. The scene was painted by Michel-Louis Chauveaux (active 1773–82).
Jean Chauvaux the Younger decorated this white ground, hard-paste porcelain tray with a fanciful pseudo-Chinese scene, in which a woman holding an apple with one hand gestures with the other toward a prostrate youth at her side. Chauvaux might have drawn his inspiration for the scene from the work of François Boucher.
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Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 7/16 × W: 15 3/16 × D: 1 9/16 in. (24 × 38.5 × 4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
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.
48.730