IDENTIFIERS
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id:	131020
accession number:	C.75 & A-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark puce, purple, orange-brown, brown, and black enamels. The cup has deep sides which curve upwards and outwards from the foot, and then rise almost vertically to the rim. The handle is harp-shaped with a slight kick at the bottom. The saucer is circular with curved sides. The cup is decorated on one side with a flying bird, and on the other with a group of birds, two standing and one perched in a tree. The handle is outlined in dark puce. The saucer is decorated internally with a peacock amid foliage, and with two other birds, one in a tree, and the other flhing. The rims of both pieces are outlined in dark puce.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels with exotic birds
title:	cup

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131020





CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1762 - 1782
creation date earliest:	1762
creation date latest:	1782
culture:	18th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Tournai Porcelain Factory


CITATIONS
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Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century
Les porcelaines de Tournai du Musée de Mariemont
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