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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand

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, gray wash 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

23.5 x 37.3 cm (9 1/4 x 14 11/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, verso, Lugt 457d: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: N° 11. Sucrier tenant au plateau, dit de M. Le premier 54"; in graphite, upper right corner: 10; verso lower right, vertically: P.15

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand; Possibly by Jacques-François Micaud (French, ca.1732–1811); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; brush and watercolor, gray wash on cream laid paper; 23.5 x 37.3 cm (9 1/4 x 14 11/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8314

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