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Factory: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in monochrome puce enamel with birds in flight and a landscapes, and gilded.
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in monochrome puce (camaiëu pourpre) enamel, and gilding. The cup has straight sides which curve inwards slightly at the base, and an ear-shaped handle. The circular saucer has sloping sides and a flat centre. There is a suspension hole in the footrim of the saucer. The cup is decorated with a bird in a tree, with one bird in flight on each side, and has a dentilated gold rim, a gold line round the base, and lines on the sides of the handle. The centre of the saucer is decorated with two buildings in a landscape, and on the sides with three birds in flight. The edge is encircled by a dentilated gold band. The colour of the crimson on the saucer is darker than that on the cup.
History note: Uncertain before donor
Given by Louis C.G. Clarke
Method of acquisition: Given (1949) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1753
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration of cherubs, flowers, birds, and landscapes in crimson monochrome (camaieu pourpre) and blue monochrome (camaieu bleu) were popular throughout the 1750s. This cup and saucer have been dated to the Vincennes period, but might have been made at Sèvres. A Vincennes cup and saucer of Bouillard shape of c. 1753 painted in crimson with a bird in a landscape is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.(Inv. no. 33263A-B).
The shape of this cup resembles several in the Wallace Collection which Savill (see Documentation, 1988, vol. II) suggests may be the form described as gobelet 'couvert' et soucoupe, but lacking its cover. If so, this would be the first size which without its cover measured between 6.4 to 7 cm, with, a saucer of the form normally accompanying a gobelet litron, between 12.8 and 14.5 cm in diameter. This one has a gobelet litron style handle of Savill’s shape C, and a litron saucer.The gobelet couvert might also have a Bouillard shape saucer. Savill notes that examples are known from 1753 to c. 1780.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( crimson (camaïeu pourpre))
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13 cm
Height 2.9 cm
Cup Rim
Diameter 6.6 cm
Cup
Height 6.7 cm
Cup With Handle
Width 9 cm
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: is this in fact there?
Accession number: C.1 & A-1949
Primary reference Number: 71107
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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