Teacup
Jacques Fontaine (b.1735)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1770
Materials
porcelain and gilt
Measurements
43 mm (Height); 93 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Sèvres
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1448172.1
Summary
A small cup and saucer The rose ground edged with gilt-lined green scrolls with pendant flowers, the saucer similarly decorated but the green scroll in quatrefoil outline, gilt dentil rims. Mark, saucer with interlaced Ls and with painter's mark of five dots in blue for Jacques Fontaine (working 1752-75 and 1778-1807), incised uj oo.
Marks and inscriptions
five dots in blue on saucer (printer's mark), incised uj oo
Makers and roles
Jacques Fontaine (b.1735)