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Pot à lait à pieds
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug, decorated with applied sprays of flowers and foliage, two panels painted in blue and gold with a triangular mosaïque pattern, and one panel painted in polychrome with a spray of flowers.
Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, pink, and mauve enamels, and gilded. The jug stands on three rustic feet. The bulbous body contracts at the neck and then flares upwards and outwards towards the notched rim, which is elongated at the front to form a lip. The rim is notched. The rustic handle rises up from the rim and curves upwards and then outwards in a single loop until it meets the most bulbous part of the body. Sprays of flowers and foliage in relief sprout from the junctions of the legs and handle with the body. The ground is white with under the spout a gilt, squat, shield-shaped outline enclosing a floral spray comprising a yellow rose, two blue flowers and three pink, with foliage. On each side of it there is an inverted outline of the same shape, filled with a mosaïque design comprising a triangular mesh of gilt lines, every alternate triangle painted in blue. The flowers in relief are painted in pink, mauve, yellow and blue. There is a dentilated gilt band round the rim and touches of gilding on the handle, feet and relief foliage.
History note: Louis C.G. Clarke, Leckhampton, Cambridge
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1756
CE
-
1760
CE
The pot a lait à trois pieds was introduced in 1752, a second size by March 1753, and the third size in 1756. This example is of the first size between 11.3 to 12.9 cm. It seems likely that the D is a date letter rather than a painter or gilder’s mark, as this design appears on a cup and saucer of 1756/1757 (see Documention, Peters, 2014).
The triangular pattern differs from many other examples in not having double lines between the triangular cells. It appears similarly with one line on a pair of vases à contours ondulées of 1758-9 at Schloss Fasanerie, but these have little gold motifs inside the triangular cells ( see Dobert and Miller, 1999)
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, and mauve)
gold
Over Lip
Height 12.2 cm
Handle-spout
Width 13 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, with applied moulded flowers and foliage in relief, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, and mauve enamels, and gilded
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: interlaced L's with a dot above
Inscription present: unidentifiable but does not look like a smudge
Inscription present: unidentifiable but different from the other maroon mark, and does not look like a smudge
Inscription present: a vertical line with a circle over the top of the line
Accession number: C.43-1961
Primary reference Number: 75072
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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