IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73803 accession number: C.26-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain basin, with a yellow ground, painted in enamels with, in reserve, three birds amongst flowers and a branch, and gilded. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73803 PEOPLE ------------------- Pierpont Morgan, M. J. SUBJECTS ------------------- birds tree birds tree TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilded. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 31.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Highly Important French and English Furniture...and A Collection of Fine Continental Porcelain, the property of David Stalder, Esq. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Sèvres Porcelain, Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_26_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_26_1961.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_26_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_26_1961.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/759/large_C_26_1961_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/759/mid_C_26_1961_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.26-1961_200901_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/759/preview_C_26_1961_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/759/C_26_1961_200901_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3328 pixels width: 4992 pixels