Soup plate (part of a set of three)

Designer: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres)

Maker: Produced by Eugêne Rousseau (1827–1891)

Manufacturer: Lebeuf et Milliet

Date: 1866–75

Culture: French, Creil

Medium: Creamware

Dimensions: Diameter: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1996

Accession Number: 1996.161.3

Description

The so-called "Rousseau" service played a pivotal role in the spread of japonisme in France in the second half of the 19th century. Conventional in its forms, it was startlingly novel in the asymmetrical disposition of the images which were largely Bracquemond's reworkings of Japanese prints by Hiroshige and Hokusai, as well as subjects of his own.

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