Decorative arts

Breakfast

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1775-1780
Accession number: 2010.6.25
Maker: Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche(Opens in new tab) (French, 1738–1812)
After: Louis-Simon Boizot(Opens in new tab) (French, 1743–1809)
Manufacturer: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory(Opens in new tab) (French, born 1756)
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.3 x 20.3 x 16.5 cm.)
Medium: biscuit soft-paste porcelain
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of MaryLou Boone
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Here 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.

Breakfast

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