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Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Armand, Louis-Denis
(Possibly)
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu celeste ground, painted in enamels, and gilding
Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a slightly mottled bleu celeste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow,pink, puce, red, purple, brow, and grey enamels, and tooled gilding. The bowl is circular with deep curved sides, and two handles formed by interlacing branches with leaf terminals at the top and bottom. The domed cover has a handle in the form of a fruiting olive branch. There is a suspension hole in the footring of the bowl, and in the underside of the cover. The glaze in the centre of the interior, and the centre of the base is speckly and slightly pitted. The bowl is decorated with a bleu celeste ground, and two oval reserves, one painted with two exotic birds amongst bushes, and the other with two birds in a landscape with a building on the right. The reserves are framed by a tooled gold band, and are linked by horizontal lines running under the handles, entwined by wavy leafy stems. The area above the line and between the reserves is decorated with gold spots surrounded by circles of tiny dots (pointillé). There is a plain gold band round the foot, a dentilated gold band round the rim, and touches of gold on the handles and leaf terminals. The cover is decorated en suite, each reserve having two exotic birds in a landscape.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century, third quarter#
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1763
: date letter L for 1763
The form of the interlaced Ls mark is comparable to that found on pieces marked by Louis-Denis Armand, l'aîné, who was one of the factory's finest bird painters.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow,pink, puce, red, purple, brow, and grey)
ground colour
( turquoise)
Bowl Rim
Diameter 10.9 cm
Over Knob
Height 10.5 cm
Across Handles
Width 15 cm
Gilding
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Lead-glazing : Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with bleu celeste ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow,pink, puce, red, purple, brow, and grey enamels, and gilding with tooled details
Accession number: C.319 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 74457
Packing number: EURCER 1019
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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