Le Déjeuner
Maker
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
(French, active from 1756 to the present)
Additional Title(s)
- Breakfast
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1775-1780
Mediumbiscuit soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions8 3/8 x 8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.3 x 20.3 x 16.5 cm.)
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of MaryLou Boone
Label TextHere a mother and her two children are served a breakfast of bread and hot chocolate, a fashionable new beverage for the nobility that was brought to Europe from Mexico in the late 16th century. The daughter hoards a pile of cherries in her lap, a few of which her brother steals from behind.Status
On viewObject number2010.6.25
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