Sugar Bowl
1781
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, founded 1740 Painted by Philippe Castel (attributed to) French, 1772-1796
Sèvres
Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds (oiseaux) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.
Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding