Ewer, c. 1700, Rouen, France, Earthenware with tin glaze and enamel (grand feu faïence)
11 x 11 in. (27.94 x 27.94 cm)
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Gift of MaryLou and George Boone in honor of the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary, M.2010.51.1
Photo © Susan Einstein
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Daily Pleasures: French Ceramics from the MaryLou Boone Collection
UNITED STATES
LOS ANGELES • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • 6 October 2012 - 31 March 2013
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Long-time LACMA benefactor MaryLou Boone has amassed the West Coast’s finest collection of French faience and soft-paste porcelain, 25 pieces of which she gave to LACMA in 2010. (Although originally made to emulate hard-paste porcelain imported into Europe from Asia, faience and soft-paste porcelain ultimately became distinctive and sought-after ceramics in their own right.)
The exhibition comprises over 130 pieces from the foremost manufactories of the era, representing myriad aesthetic influences, as well as advances in technology and the rhythms of domestic life. The collection includes wares for dining and taking tea, for storing the many toiletries necessary for a stylish appearance, and for preparing mixtures that comforted in time of sickness.
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