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Oval basin
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain basin, with a yellow ground, painted in enamels with, in reserve, three birds amongst flowers and a branch, and gilded.
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale yellow ground, painting in blue, shades of green, yellow dark pink, puce, purple, and brown, and grey enamels, and gilding. Oval with deep sides and lobed and indented rim. There are two holes in the footring at right angles to each other. Yellow (jaune jonquille) ground with an oval reserve in the centre, framed by a wide band of gilding tooled with striated triangles, and painted in polychrome with two colourful exotic birds standing on the ground, and another perching in a tree beside them, with trees and flowers in the background. There is a band of gilding round the rim.
History note: Pierpont Morgan Collection. David Stalder; sold at Sotheby's, 25 June 1948, Catalogue of Highly Important French and English Furniture...and A Collection of Fine Continental Porcelain, the property of David Stalder, Esq., p. 10, lot 65; purchased by Mallett and Sons, London for £125; Louis C.G. Clarke Collection.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Length: 31.2 cm
Width: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, third quarter#
18th Century, Late
Circa
1770
CE
-
Circa
1790
CE
The authenticity of this piece has been doubted by a number of Sèvres scholars and collectors. If made in the factory its decoration was probably done elsewhere, possibly in England. The painter's mark presumably added at the same time is that of Etienne Evans, who specialized in bird painting
The tooling on the frame round the reserve is approximately the same as Savill's design no. 40 (See Savill, 1988, III, p. 1140).
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, shades of green, yellow dark pink, puce, purple, and brown, and grey)
gold
Whole At Ends
Height 5.4 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilded.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: interlaced L's
Inscription present: dagger-like X
Inscription present: square white paper label, now appearing cream
Accession number: C.26-1961
Primary reference Number: 73803
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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