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They would have been displayed on a wealthy lady's dressing table and used for washing during the process of dressing, hairdressing and applying make-up.  Food was often consumed during this lengthy procedure, making hand washing even more necessary.   Ewers and basins were also used in the <i>garde-robe</i> which, for the wealthy in the mid 1700s, was used in the same way as we use a plumbed-in bathroom today.  Royal <i>garde-robes </i>or<i> cabinets de toilette</i> were comfortably furnished and often had painted wood panelling and matching accessories such as useful porcelain items.\n\nRosalind Savill, in her catalogue of Sèvres porcelain in The Wallace Collection, lists the many different items the Sèvres factory made  for the <i>toilette: </i>foot-washing bowls, mouth-rinsing bowls, spittoons, bidets, barber's basins, chamber pots, eye-baths, sponge and soap boxes as well as pots and brush handles for make-up and different kinds of powder.","physicalDescription":"Soft-paste porcelain ewer, of bulbous shape with moulding resembling leaves or lapping water, loop handle with leaf terminal.  Decorated with puce monochrome floral sprays and garlands on a white ground.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"moulded","id":"x30076"},{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"},{"text":"gilt","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[{"text":"rococo","id":"AAT21155"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AH0131","2006AF7565"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"007","id":"THES395811"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Jug","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"This shape is sometimes called 'broc Roussel a reliefs', however a drawing at Sèvres dated 19th February, 1753 probably relating to this model is called <i>pot 'a l'eau la Boissière'</i>"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1758","earliest":"1758-01-01","latest":"1758-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"CIRC.127-1937","id":"O100204"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"803-1882","id":"O99219"},"association":"Model"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"19.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"13.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Interlaced 'L's in blue enamel with date letter 'E'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Maker's mark"},{"content":"a crown in blue enamel, partially dotted, for Jean-Charles Sioux l'aîné","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Painter's mark.   Sioux l'aîné specialised in painting monochrome flowers, patterns and feathered edges. He worked at the factory from 1752-92."},{"content":"IP","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"incised"}],"objectHistory":"According to David Peters, Sioux l'aîné specialised in painting monochrome flowers, patterns and feathered edges. He worked at the factory from 1752-92.\r\n\nThis shape is sometimes called 'broc Roussel a reliefs', however Rosalind's Savill in her analysis of the broc 'Roussel' shape (see below, vol. 2, p. 697) states: 'A more stocky jug, usually with wave-like moulding, is sometimes called a broc Roussel, but a drawing in the Sèvres Archive dated 19th February, 1753 shows that it is the pot 'a l'eau la Boissière'.'  This description matches this shape, when compared to the <i>broc Roussel</i> (see the Wallace Collection, vol II, C452, p. 707).  The waves of lapping water or possibly leaves moulded into the body of the jug are also found in a more pronounced form on the <i>broc et jatte feuille d'eau</i>which first appear in the records in 1756.  Charles-François Grillard de La Boissière was a shareholder at Vincennes-Sèvres.\n\n<i>En camaïeu rose</i> decoration is found particularly in the 1750s.  According to Geoffrey de Bellaigue (see below) monochrome decoration was practised at Sèvres throughout the 18th century.  The 1760s and early 70s was a period when trails of blue were particularly in favour.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Soft-paste porcelain ewer, painted in enamels and gilt, made by Sèvres porcelain factory, France, 1758","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres  Porcelain, 3 vols.  London: Trustees of the Wallace  Collection, 1988.  See vol. 2, pp. 691-691 for a discussion of items made for the boudoir, and p.697-8 for a discussion of the '<i>broc Rousse</i><i>l</i>' shape and its variants."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Geoffrey de Bellaigue.  French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Royal Collection Publications, 2009, 3 vols.  See Vol II, pp.970-973 for a Sèvres ewer and basin with blue monochrome decoration, cat. no. 278, possibly dated 1771."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Peters, David.  <u>An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters</u>.  The French Porcelain Society, A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014.  London, 2014.  Following a detailed analysis of the records against existing pieces, Peters has suggested 'E’ is now for 1758, not 1757-58 as formerly thought."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"leaf","id":"AAT11892"},{"text":"flower","id":"AAT132399"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["CIRC.126-1937"],"accessionNumberNum":"126","accessionNumberPrefix":"CIRC","accessionYear":1937,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN2414","2019LW0955"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-09","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-07","availableToBook":false}}