Object Number 1954.0029.001

Object Name

Saucer

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Jingdezhen, China, Asia

Secondary Place of Origin

Netherlands, Europe

Secondary Origin Notes

Enameled in Netherlands.

Date

1750-1770

Materials

Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze

Techniques

Thrown, Painted, Enameled

Dimensions (inches)

1.181 (H) , 4.803 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

3 (H) , 12.2 (Diam)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Espir, Helen. 2005 European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, 1700-1830.
• Published: (mention) p.165 in discussion of Cherry Picker design on pp.165-166.
[Book] Litzenburg, Thomas V. & Bailey, Ann T. 2003 Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University. 288 p.
• "Cherry Picker" design featured on a plate and discussed in cat. no. 264, p. 261
[Book] Espir, Helen. 2005 European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, 1700-1830.
• Two examples of cherry or apple pickers saucers and mention of Winterthur examples: pp. 165-66, no. 13
[Article] Bellhouse, Mary L. 1999 Crimes and Pardons: Bourgeois Justice, Gendered Virtue, and the Criminalized Other in Eighteenth-Century France. Signs. 24 (4)
• Discusses "Cherry Picker" image in print and painting form and audience response to the image in 18th c.
[Book] Brawer, Catharine Coleman. 1992 Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel (Mrs. Julius) Liebman and Arthur L. Liebman Porcelain Collection.
• Discusses "Cherry Picker" decoration: p. 122, no. 95
[Book] Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Chinese porcelain dish (c. 1780) & enamel on copper cup (1770-80) with same scene and print source: pp. 106-7, no. 16, figs 55-56, with engraving of "The Cherry Pickers" by Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831), c. 1775, after painting by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (172
[Catalogue] 2007 Christie's (sales catalogue).
• Dutch or possibly English delftware dish portraying Cherry Pickers theme in blue and white: January 26, 2010 (NY), Benjamin F. Edwards III sale, lot 367, noting another at Colonial Williamsburg
[Book] Aronson, Robert & Ariaans, Celine. 2023 Below the Glaze: Dated Delftware.
• Dutch Delft polychrome cuspidore with Cherry Pickers scene, dated 1747: p. 186