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Factory:
Capodimonte Porcelain Factory
Mount maker:
uncertain
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, with engraved and enamelled gold mounts and stopper. Decorated on one side with a half-length portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-88), and on the other with the arms and motto of Lady Mary Hervey (1700-68)
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted overglaze in shades of blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, dull red, brown, grey, and black enamels, with gold mounts, and stopper (A) attached by a chain, engraved, and decorated in white, pale and dark pink opaque enamels, and translucent blue and green enamels. The stopper is attached to the mount by a gold chain. One side of the flask is decorated with a stippled half-length portrait of Prince Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-88), wearing armour and the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, the blue ribbon of the Order of the Garter, which appears to his right on a crimson cloak.. The portrait is surrounded by a garland of white roses, thistles and foliage with a mask at the top. The other side bears the arms of Lady Mary Hervey (1699/1700-1768), against an ermine-lined crimson robe surmounted by a coronet, against a pale blue ground, with the Harvey motto ‘JE N’OUBLIERAY JAMAIS’ on a ribbon below, surrounded by a garland of fruit and foliage with a bearded Bacchic mask at the top. The mount round the foot is hatched and overlaid by translucent blue enamel. The upper rim is hatched and encircled by a continuous stem of pink and white roses and leaves, and the stopper is enamelled to resemble a pink and white bud enclosed by leaves.
History note: Lady Mary Hervey (1699/1700-1768); unknown; Sotheby’s, 4 May 1965, Fine Continental Porcelain, p. 45, lot 148 sold anonymously for £750; Winifred Williams, Bury Street, London; Ernesto Blohm (1903-70); descendant of Ernesto Blohm; Christie’s, 27 June 2005, British and Continental Ceramics including Property from the Collection formed by Otto and Magdalena Blohm, lot 66; sold to the vendor.
Purchased with the Seamus V. Finn Fund, and grants from The Art Fund, and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund
Height: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2007-06-04) by E. & H. Manners
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1752
CE
-
1755
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( on porcelain, shades of blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, dull red, brown, grey, and black; on gold mounts, translucent blue and green; opaque white and pink)
Body
composed of
glaze
( presumed lead glaze)
soft-paste porcelain
Mounts
composed of
gold
Stopper And Chain
composed of
gold
Porcelain
Depth 2.5 cm
Width 4.7 cm
Accession number: C.28 & A-2007
Primary reference Number: 146205
Entry form number: 842
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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