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Ice-cream pail
Sèvres
(gilder)
Brachard, Alexandre
(gilder)
Degault, Jean-Marie
(gilder)
Boitel, Charles-Marie-Pierre
(gilder)
This spectacular ice-cream pail is is from the service iconographique grec, a large and elaborate dessert service. It would have originally had a metal liner and porcelain lid. Each side is painted with a fictive stone cameo portrait - one depicting Julius Caesar and the other Alexander the Great. The object was designed by Alexandre Brachard, painted by Jean-Marie Degault and gilded by Charles-Marie-Pierre Boitel.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30050
Creation/Production
1811-1814 / 1806 / 1814 / 1811-1814
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Designer
Role: Production
Role: Painter
Role: Production
Role: gilder
Period:
1811-1814
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 17/7/1989
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 33.5
Depth
(cm): 22.7
Width
(cm): 28
Height
(in): 13 3/16
Depth
(in): 8 15/16
Width
(in): 11
Material
Hard-paste porcelain
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