IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 37353 accession number: C.76 & A-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 21 April 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain sauce tureen and cover, decorated with a pale green ground, painting in dark green, yellow, brown and purple enamel colours and gilding. The hemispherical bowl has a row of white beading below the rim, two gilt eagle's head and ring handles and a pedestal foot. The circular cover rises in a convex curve to a circular platform edges with white beading and surmounted by a flaming knob (or a tulip-shaped knob). The bowl is decorated on each side with the letters IHS in an oval panel surrounded by a sunburst flanked by horizontal vine branches bearing bunches of grapes, interspersed with ears of corn. The foot is decorated with a gilt zig-zag border and the rim, knob and edge of the foot are gilt. Inside the bowl there is a formal motif with arrows and leaves. The cover is decorated en suite but without the IHS panels. object type: Soft-paste porcelain sauce tureen with cover, painted in polychorme enamels and gilt. title: sauce tureen LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Peter Crabbe STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37353 SUBJECTS ------------------- vine leaves grapes vine leaves grapes TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale green ground, painting in dark green, yellow, brown and purple enamel colours and gilding glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1813 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1813 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, first half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Barr, Flight and Barr DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.7 CITATIONS -------- Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain, 1783-1840 ---