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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Scalloped Salad Bowl

This is a Drawing. It was possibly by Jacques-François Micaud and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated ca. 1775 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

45.0 x 32.3 cm (17 11/16 x 12 11/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Watermark: D C BLAUW, similar to Churchill 328; Stamp in black ink, verso upper right: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: N° 7 hauteur du Saladier dit Verdun; along lower right edge: N° 7 Saladier dit Verdun. 1re grandeur 48".; in graphite, right edge, center: 20; in graphite, lower right corner, verso (up-side-down): P. 15

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Scalloped Salad Bowl; Possibly by Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper; 45.0 x 32.3 cm (17 11/16 x 12 11/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8313

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