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Mustard Pot with Attached Stand and Spoon (Moutardier à Plateau; Cuillère à Moutarde) Mustard Pot With Stand; Spoon
This is a mustard pot with stand; spoon. It was manufactured by Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated early 18th–mid- 18th century and we acquired it in 1977. Its medium is soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "The Design of Table Tools..." in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"To escape the perfunctory, ritualistic decorum associated with the Sun King, many aristocrats, following his demise, moved from the confinement of the cold apartments at Versailles to the freedom of smaller, more independent quarters in Paris, some with a room made solely for dining. Compared to the grandeur of Versailles, the intimacy of small dining rooms encouraged richly appointed table settings, including flatware, and led to elegant entertaining by mid-eighteenth century (fig. 7) At this time, the accoutrements of the table assumed importance over a display of silver on a sideboard, a fashion more popular at both earlier and later dates. Fashionable table settings included spoons designed as sets for the table rather than as personal objects, hence the term "table" spoon."
This object was
donated by
Mrs. John Jay Ide.
It is credited The John Jay Ide Collection.
Its dimensions are
H x W (a: mustard pot): 8.1 × 13.7 × 9.8 cm (3 3/16 × 5 3/8 × 3 7/8 in.) H x diam. (b: lid): 2.2 × 5.1 cm (7/8 in. × 2 in.) H x W x D (c: spoon): 1.9 × 11.6 × 2.7 cm (3/4 × 4 9/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Underside: [1] a fanfare trumpet or hunting horn, painted in underglaze blue (manufactory mark)
It is signed
Not signed
It is inscribed
Uninscribed
Cite this object as
Mustard Pot with Attached Stand and Spoon (Moutardier à Plateau; Cuillère à Moutarde) Mustard Pot With Stand; Spoon; Manufactured by Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x W (a: mustard pot): 8.1 × 13.7 × 9.8 cm (3 3/16 × 5 3/8 × 3 7/8 in.) H x diam. (b: lid): 2.2 × 5.1 cm (7/8 in. × 2 in.) H x W x D (c: spoon): 1.9 × 11.6 × 2.7 cm (3/4 × 4 9/16 × 1 1/16 in.); The John Jay Ide Collection; 1977-52-17-a/c
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
