Sugar bowl and cover (pot à sucre à pied anse volute couvert) with portraits of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)

1812

Medium	Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions	Overall: 5 13/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 in. (14.8 × 14 × 10.2 cm) Sugar bowl: 5 3/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 in. (13.2 × 14 × 10.2 cm) Cover: Height: 1 5/8 x Diameter: 3 3/8 in. (4.1 × 8.6 cm)
Object Number	2021.3.3a-b
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 2021
Status	On View

Image Caption

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sugar bowl and cover (pot à sucre à pied anse volute couvert) with portraits of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), 1812, Hard-paste porcelain. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 2021.3.3a-b

Select Bibliography

Anne Lajoix, Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, 1722-1855, peintre sure porcelain, Troyes, France, 2006.

Provenance

Empress Joséphine (1763-1814, rejected gift of Napoleon, 1812); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Antoinette Élisabeth Marie d’Aguesseau, la Comtesse de Ségur (1756-1828, gift from Empress Marie Louise, 1813); Sale, Osenat, Fontainebleau, France, 19 March 2021, lot 145, sold to the Clark; Clark Art Institute, 2021