Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
Sugar Bowl
1781
Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding
11.3 × 10.5 cm (4.4 × 4.1 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG
Bird painting has always been popular at Sèvres. The birds ( oiseaux ) on this sugar bowl are drawn from engravings in Histoire naturelle des oiseaux , an 18th-century natural history treatise by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–88). These engravings were first used as source material at Sèvres in 1781.
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