Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Sugar Bowl and Cover forming part of a Dejeuner
Maker(s)
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Noël, Guillaume
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a rose marbré ground, flower painted in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated overglaze with a rose marbré ground, painting in blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, and purple enamels. The bowl has almost straight sides which curve inwards to the footring and a slightly domed cover with a knob in the form of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk with two leaves. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The bowl has two truncated heart-shaped reserves with a scalloped gold line round the edge containing floral sprays, and the cover has two kidney-shaped reserves similarly edged and painted with a smaller floral sray. There are gold bands round the rim, footring, and edge of the cover, and the knob, stalk, and leaves are gilded.
Notes
History note: Probably Oscar Dusendschen, Geneva; sold Sotheby's, 6 December 1960, An Important Collection of European Porcelain, the Property of the late Oscar Dusendschen of Geneva, p. 28, lot 88, illustrated. Wilfrid A. Evill by whom bequeathed in 1963 subject to a life interest to Miss Honor E. Frost who lent it until her death in2010
Legal notes
Lent by Miss Honor Frost
Measurements and weight
Height: 5.9 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1963)
by
Evill, Wilfrid Ariel
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1761
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, dark pink, mauve and purple)
ground colour
( rose)
gold
Materials used in production
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated overglaze with a rose marbré ground, painting in blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, and purple enamels
Inscription or legends present
- Text: interlaced Ls enclosing i
- Location: On base of bowl
- Method of creation: Painted in bright blue enamel
- Type: Factory mark
Inscription present: a short line with another above it with a hump in the middle
- Location: On base above factory mark
- Method of creation: Painted in bright blue enamel
- Type: Maker's mark
Inscription present: a sloping reversed S and a sloping S perhaps forming an open V
- Location: On base of bowl
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Incised mark
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.177.3 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 150625
Old object number: Loan 15.3 & A-1963
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 15 December 2023
Last processed: Friday 15 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
