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Sugar Bowl and Cover. Pot à sucre Calabre. Aloncle, François-Joseph (painter, French, act.1758-1781). Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Painted in enamels in reserves each containing a bird in landscape, and gilded. Soft-paste porcelain, thrown and moulded, decorated with a green ground, painting in blue, very dark blue, shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding, height, whole, 10.2 cm (incl. cover), diameter, bowl, 8.9 cm, diameter, cover, 9.1 cm. The basin bears the date letter for 1769 but decoration was probably added later. Rococo.
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