Small tray, cup and saucer (déjeuner carré), ca. 1765–70
Small tray, cup and saucer (déjeuner carré), ca. 1765–70, French, Sèvres, Soft-paste porcelain, Tray, Overall: 1 1/4 x 5 13/16 in. ( x cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, The fascination with the decorative and artistic qualities of hardstones (pietre dure) was a strong current in European court and aristocratic taste in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactory acknowledged this taste by occasionally using imitation hardstone surfaces to decorate its products
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