IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73447 accession number: C.24 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, pale pink, dark pink, brown, and grey enamels, and gilding.The cylindrical cup curves inwards above the footring,and has an ear-shaped handle. The saucer has deep, curved sides, and stands on a footring with a suspension hole. Both pieces have a bleu lapis ground vermiculé d'or. The cup has an approximately semi-circular reserve on the front painted in polychrome with an infant holding a lyre and a laurel wreath, and sitting on a drapery amid clouds. The reserve has a scalloped gilt frame surrounded by a band of zig-zags. There are gold bands round the foot and rim, the latter dentilated on the interior; gold lines down the sides of the handle and on its back, three V shapes of graduated size each with five pendant leaves and two dots.The saucer has a central circular reserve painted in polychrome with a cupid holding an arrow, sitting amid couds. The reserve has a frame similar to that on the cup. There is a gold band round the rim, dentilated on the exterior. object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, with an underglaze bleu lapis ground vermiculé d'or, the reserve on each piece painted in enamels with an infant on clouds, surrounded by a gilded border title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: L.C.G. Clarke, MA, Cambridge, before October 1948 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73447 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid putto SUBJECTS ------------------- cloud arrow lyre wreath laurel cloud arrow lyre wreath laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1761 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1761 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Rousseau, Gabriel CITATIONS -------- Les Marques de Sèvres Decorator and Date marks on C18th Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_24_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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