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Fruit or flower basket (corbeille aux cygnes)

Manufactory Sèvres Manufactory French
Designer Louis Martin Berthault French
Decorator Pierre-Louis Micaud French
designed 1812, manufactured 1823
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 553
Berthault, Malmaison’s garden architect and decorator of the greenhouse, designed this jardinière for Josephine in 1812 as a table centerpiece. To further enhance her dinner table, a richly gilded dessert service ornamented with botanical motifs was ordered from the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin during the city’s occupation by the French.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fruit or flower basket (corbeille aux cygnes)
  • Manufactory: Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)
  • Designer: Louis Martin Berthault (French, Paris 1770–1823 Tours)
  • Decorator: Pierre-Louis Micaud (French, active 1795–1834)
  • Date: designed 1812, manufactured 1823
  • Culture: French, Sèvres
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
  • Dimensions: Overall: 14 3/16 × 16 in. (36 × 40.6 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, by exchange, 1985
  • Object Number: 1985.119
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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