Stand 1760–65 Mennecy The Mennecy factory produced a limited number of tablewares, most of which appear to have been made as independent objects rather than as part of sets united by coordinated painted decoration. Like the Saint-Cloud and Chantilly factories, Mennecy did not attempt to produce entire dinner services, which were extremely expensive to create due to the number of forms required. In addition, the production of large objects, such as soup tureens, platters, and bowls for punch or for salad that were standard components of services, was beyond the factory’s technical capability. H

Stand 1760–65 Mennecy The Mennecy factory produced a limited number of tablewares, most of which appear to have been made as independent objects rather than as part of sets united by coordinated painted decoration. Like the Saint-Cloud and Chantilly factories, Mennecy did not attempt to produce entire dinner services, which were extremely expensive to create due to the number of forms required. In addition, the production of large objects, such as soup tureens, platters, and bowls for punch or for salad that were standard components of services, was beyond the factory’s technical capability. However, Mennecy made a limited number of less ambitious, independent dining wares, including wine coolers,[1] sauceboats,[2] sugar bowls and stands,[3] salt cellars,[4] and mustard pots with stands.[5]This shaped dish appears to have been made as a stand for a sugar bowl or small sauce tureen. It accompanied an oval covered bowl when it was sold at auction in 1947 [6] and again in 1972;[7] however, the dish was sold without the covered bowl when it reappeared at auction in 1983.[8] The black-and-white photographs from the two earlier sale catalogues do not allow for easy identification of the function of the bowl, yet in both instances the bowl and stand were sold with a spoon that was clearly intended for sugar as the bowl of the spoon is perforated.[9] While it is likely that the bowl that originally accompanied the dish was intended for sugar, it is somewhat surprising that Mennecy would have produced several models of sugar bowls given the relatively small scale of the factory’s production.[10]Just as most of the objects made at Mennecy were neither large nor complex in form, the vast majority of the factory’s wares are decorated with simple flower painting. Mennecy porcelains are often immediately identifiable due to their distinctive palette that is dominated by a claret-hued purple usually accompanied by blue, green, and yellow. A relatively small number of objec

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