Tea tray (Plateau)

Artist: Based on engravings by Pierre Brebiette (French, Mantes-sur-Seine ca. 1598–1642 Paris)

Date: ca. 1725

Culture: French, Rouen

Medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

Dimensions: Overall: 20 × 26 in. (50.8 × 66 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.190.1834

Description

The central parade of child musicians is adapted from engravings by Pierre Brébiette (1598–1650). The black and yellow of the ground evoke the ebony, brass, and tortoiseshell marquetry furniture of André Charles Boulle (1642–1732) and his successors.

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