IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 179248 accession number: C.177.1-3-2010 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, partly moulded, and partly thrown, decorated overglaze with a rose marbré overglaze ground, painting in blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, and purple enamels, and gilding. The shallow oval tray (C.177.1) has lobed ends and wavy sides with an indentation in the middle and stands on a footring. The rounded cup (C.177.2) has a scrolled handle. The saucer (C.177.2A) has shallow curved sides and stands on a footring. The sugar bowl (C.177.3) has almost straight sides which curve inwards to the footring and a slightly domed cover (C.177.3A) with a knob in the form of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk with two leaves. There are suspension holes in the footrings of the tray and saucer. The tray is decorated with rose border with blue and gold striations, and narrow gold and blue lines on the outer and inner edges, the latter scalloped. The white flat area is decorated with four floral sprays of different sizes. There is a gold band round the rim, dentilated on the exterior. The cup has a similar ground and one truncated heart-shaped reserve, containing an arrangement of flowers. There is a dentilated band round the rim, a plain band round the footring, and gold lines on the edges of the handle. The saucer has a similar border and a bouquet of flowers in the centre. The sugar 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. title: tea set NOTES ----- type: history note value: Wilfred Ariel Evill by whom bequeathed in 1963 with a life interest to Miss Honor E. Frost who lent it to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1963, and died in 2010 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Wilfred A. Evill, 1963 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/179248 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1762 - 1762 creation date earliest: 1762 creation date latest: 1762 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Noël, Guillaume CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain ---