IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38705 accession number: C.5 & A-2001 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 2 April 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in shades of brown and tomato-red enamel, and gilt. The cylindrical cup has a scroll handle with leaf moulding on top. The circular saucer has deep sloping sides and a flat centre. The front of the cup is decorated with a tooled gold oval frame enclosing a head of François-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778) in profile to left painted en grisaille in brown against a tomato-red ground. The frame is tooled with two zig-zag lines with cross binding at the cardinal points. The two sides are decorated with swags of small leaves, over which are pairs of cornucopia-like formal flowers pointing upwards, interlaced with pairs of palms pointing downwards, and round the handle is a wreath of larger leaves and berries. There are gilt bands round the lower edge and rim, and down the sides of the handle, which also has a formal leaf on its top. The inside of the saucer is decorated en suite with the sides of the cup, and has in addition a circle of leaves and berries in the centre. object type: Hard-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted with the head of François-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778) in profile to left on the cup in brown and red enamel, and gilded. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unidentified private collection, 1985; Sotheby's, London, 21 March 2000, European Ceramics, Glass and Silver, lot 80; E. & H. Manners (Errol Manners), 66A Kensington Church Street, London, W9 4BY, from whom purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Rylands Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38705 PEOPLE ------------------- François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Pithou, Nicolas-Pierre, the younger maker: Pithou, Pierre-Nicolas, the elder maker: Prévost, Henri-Martin CITATIONS -------- Voltaire et Fréderic,. Une amitié commémorée en porcelaine Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain La Porcelaine de Vincennes French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection The Hector Binney Collection, European Ceramics, Continental Furniture and Works of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_5_20A_2001_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_5_20A_2001_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_5_20A_2001_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_5_20A_2001_20_281_29.jpg 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