- Museum number
- C403B.1
C403B.2 - Object
- Cup and saucer, Sèvres Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, 1757
- Description
- A sevres cup and saucer, mazarin blue ground with gold scroll orament, panels in pale blue, the flesh natural colours. Painter Dodin 1757
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Sevres mark over a K
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- cup
saucer
Cup and saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, 1757
C403B
Purchased 1934
The concept of ‘good taste’ first appeared in the eighteenth century. The rise of the middle classes meant that relatively ordinary people were able to purchase fashionable luxury goods for the first time.
Early in the century the heavy baroque style remained fashionable. During the 1730s the new lighter rococo style appeared with its asymmetries and motifs based on nature.
Neoclassicism, derived from Greece and Rome and inspired by archaeological discoveries, emerged in the 1750s partly as a reaction to the excesses of the rococo. It was to dominate art and design until the 1830s.
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