Images(5)

Breakfast

Maker Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche (French, born 1738 or 1741, died 1812)

Afterafter a model by Louis-Simon Boizot (French, 1743 - 1809)

Manufacturermanufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, active from 1756 to the present)

Additional Title(s)

Le Petit-déjeuner

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

Status

On view

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.

Object number2010.6.25