Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Jatte de pot à la Romaine
Translated as: basin for a ewer 'à la Romaine'
Maker(s)
Factory:
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels
Soft-paste porcelain moulded. glazed, painted in blue, four shades of green, yellow, dark puce, and purple enamels and gilded. Approximately oval in plan with undulating sides, notched at each end and having a depression on each side to facilitate handling. The interior sides are moulded in relief with four long leaves. On the base there are four patch marks, two at each end.
In the centre, is a basket filled to overflowing with flowers, including pansies, roses and peonies. On each side of the base, between the moulded leaves, there are two curving sprays of flowers and foliage, growing from the edge of the basin towards the centre, and then curving in opposite directions along the sides. There is an ant at the upper right side of the basin, and a ladybird (?) on the upper left side, covering blemishes in the glaze. The moulded foliage is outlined in gold. At the handle ends there are gold scroll motifs and there is a band of gilding round the rim.
Notes
History note: Wilfred Ariel Evill by whom bequeathed in 1963 subject to a life interest to Miss Honor E. Frost, who lent it to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1963, and died in 2010
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Wilfred A. Evill, 1963
Measurements and weight
Height: 7 cm
Height: 2¾ in
Length: 35.5 cm
Length: 14 in
Width: 26.7 cm
Width: 10½ in
Place(s) associated
-
Vincennes
⪼ Val-de-Marne
⪼ France
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2010-11-30)
by
Evill, Wilfrid Ariel
Dating
18th Century, Mid
Louis XV
Circa
1750
CE
-
1752
CE
Note
This basin form was intended to accompany a pot à la Romaine and would have been used for hand washing in the owner's private apartments.
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, four shades of green, yellow, dark puce, and purple enamels)
gold
Visible Areas
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed lead-glaze)
Materials used in production
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, four shades of green, yellow, dark puce, and purple enamelsen, and gilded
Inscription or legends present
- Text: interlaced LL enclosing a fleur de lis, with a crown above
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Factory mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.176-2010
Primary reference Number: 179247
Old object number: Loan 4-1963
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
