IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72980 accession number: C.2 & A-X DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. Cylindrical cup with ear-shaped handle. Circular saucer with convex central area and deep, sloping sides. Both pieces have a suspension hole in the footrim. Both pieces have a white ground. The front of the cup is painted in polychrome with a trophy comprising a guitar tied with a bow of dark pink ribbon, a recorder, and another wind instruments, an arrow, an houlette decked with a dark pink ribbon and garland of leaves, surrounded by a chased gold frame of approximately three-quarters of a circle tooled panels of trellis alternating with smaller plain areas . On each side of the frame there is a gold lozenge enclosing four spots in dotted circles from which are suspended trailing sprays of gilt leaves which cross over under the handle. Round the top of the cup there is a sable d'or border between bands of gilding and there is a further band of gilding round the foot. There are gold lines down the sides of the handle and four horizontal bands of vertical strokes down its back. The centre of the saucer is painted with a gardening trophy comprising a basket of grapes, a hoe, a stick, and a horn surrounded by a band of gilding. The sides are decorated with three gold lozenges similar to those on the cup, linked by trailing sprays of gilt leaves. The border is en suite with that of the cup. object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamels, and gilded, with a musical trophy on the front of the cup and a gardening trophy in the centre of the saucer. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Donor and date of acquisition unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72980 SUBJECTS ------------------- trophies musical instrument arrow garland basket houlette trophies musical instrument arrow garland basket houlette TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Buteux, Charles CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire universel de commerce Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, Furniture, Textiles, Sèvres Porcelains and Other Objects The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain La Porcelaine de Vincennes French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2X_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_2X_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2X_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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