Factory: Buen Retiro
Soft-paste porcelain plate painted in polychrome enamels and gold with the initials CL in monogram, and on the rim with oval medallions containing towers, and kidney-shaped panels containing landscapes, all with gold frames flanked by gold swags and tassels
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels and gilt. Circular with twelve indentations in the edge, sloping rim, and shallow curved well, standing on a low footrim. The plate is decorated in the centre with a monogram comprising a C in gold, and an L formed of pink roses and leaves. On the rim there are three oval medallions containing sepia towers surrounded by gold frames and roses, alternating with three kidney-shaped panels containing polychrome landscapes surrounded by gold frames, and flanked by gold swags terminating in tassels. The edge of the rim is gilded.
History note: Louis Colville Gray Clarke, MA, Leckhampton, Cambridge
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Diameter: 24.1 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1945-07-20) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Late
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
This plate and EC.22B-1945 are replacements for plates in the Sèvres ' Asturias Service (Service des Asturies), so called because it was given by Louis XVI to Maria Luisa Teresa, Princessa de Asturias, wife of Charles, Principe de Asturias, who in 1788 became Charles IV of Spain. The Princess was a granddaughter of Louis XV who had ordered the service before his death in 1774. The service was delivered in stages beginning in 1775 with supplements in 1776. 1783, 1786, 1787 and 1789.
Decoration composed of enamel gold
lead-glaze assumed
Glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: fleur-de-lys is bluish-grey and dot turquoise
Accession number: EC.22B-1945
Primary reference Number: 140407
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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