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Creative Commons License
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Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre Hébert)
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The pot bears the mark of Louis-Jean Thévenet, a painter of flowers active at the factory from 1741 to 1777.
Inscription
Provenance
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E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, No. 12, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1995-1996 | Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 9/1/2015 | Treatment | Treated for exhibition |
| 9/1/2015 | Treatment | The sugar bowl is intact but the lid has been broken roughly in half and repaired in the past. The old repairs were deteriorated. Old repairs were removed and replaced with conservation quality materials. |
Geographies
France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H with lid: 2 11/16 × Diam.with lid: 2 1/2 in. (6.9 × 6.3 cm); Bowl H: 1 15/16 × Diam: 2 3/8 in. (4.9 × 6.1 cm); Lid H: 15/16 × Diam: 2 1/2 in. (2.4 × 6.3 cm).
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.588