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Manufacturer: Chevalier Brothers factory (Probably)
Hard-paste porcelain cup and saucer painted in black on both pieces with a classical ruin, a landscape, and gilded borders.
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in black enamel, and gilded. The cylindrical cup has a loop handle the lower part of which has a concave curve. The saucer is circular with sloping sides and a flat central area. The front of the cup is decorated with an approximately circular gold frame enclosing a landscape with a classical ruin. On either side of the handle there is an elaborate gold scroll motif. There are gold bands round the base and rim, and down the back of the handle. The base is marked 'CH' in gold. The saucer is decorated in the middle with a circular gold frame enclosing a landscape with a lake and classical ruins, and has a wide gold band round the rim.
History note: Unknown before donor, Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA (1854-1941)
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Ralph Griffin, MA
18th Century, Late
Circa
1793
-
1799
Cylindrical cups were used for tea or coffee in late eighteenth-century The Sèvres factory described them as 'gobelet litron', after a much larger cylindrical measure for dry goods. The initials CH on the base of the saucer indicate that it was probably made in the porcelain factory established by Pierre César Chevalier and his brother Jacques Léopold Chevalier in the rue de la Pépiniere, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in Paris, which was advertised as to open on 20 February 1793. The British museum has a cup and saucer with the mark CH on the cup (Franks 434), whose decoration matches a small teaset on a tray (1985,0103.1), which has the proprietors' name, 'chevalier a paris' on the tray, the only example of the inscription recorded. The brothers obtained clay from Alluaud of Limoges, and by September 1798 were in debt to their supplier and were declared insolvent. It is unclear when production ceased, but in August 1799 the building was taken over by Jacques Fourmy. The Fitzwilliam's cup and saucer were previously attributed successively to Strasbourg, and to Henri-Florentin Chanou, who briefly had a factory in the rue de Reuilly, and registered the mark CH in monogram in May 1784. He had formerly been a painter at Sèvres and in April 1785 applied for reinstatement.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( black)
gold
Surface
composed of
glaze
Saucer
Diameter 14.8 cm
Cup Rim
Diameter 7.2 cm
Cup
Height 7.1 cm
Width 10 cm
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted overglaze in black enamel, and gilded.
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.203 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 73024
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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