Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Footed Dish (soucoupe à pied)

Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756) · 1786

soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The dark blue ground that rings the edge of this plate is known as <em>beau bleu</em> (beautiful blue) and derived its color from cobalt added to the enamel.

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