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Coquetier sans pied ou petit coquetier
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels with three sprays of flowers and leaves, and gilded
Soft-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in blue, green, dark pink, purple, and grey enamels, and gilded. The cup stands on a low foot. The white ground is painted with three sprays of polychrome flowers and leaves, with above and below, a blue band crossed at intervals by two short diagonal gold lines. There is a band of gilding round the foot and a dentilated band of gilding round the rim.
History note: Uncertain before Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D, Cambridge
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 4.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
1757
CE
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1769
CE
Egg cups were made at Vincennes from 1753. The first examples had a circular foot and stem, resembling a small wine glass, which may have been impractical. A model and moulds for a smaller egg cup, described as 'petit coquetier' were made in 1756, probably for the model being sold in 1757. They were made in small numbers in the 1750s and became more popular in the 1760s. Egg cups were only rarely included in orders for services, for example a service purchased by M. de Laborde from the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux between 1 January and 1 July 1758 included three eggcups costing 24 livres, and a service for the Maréchal -duc de Richelieu bought through Mme Duvaux at the end of 1758 included two eggcups at 18 livres each (see Documentation, Peters, 2005).
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, dark pink, purple, and grey)
gold
Foot
Diameter 3.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 4.7 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Soft-paste porcelain, thrown, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, dark pink, purple, and grey enamels, and gilded.
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.66-1961
Primary reference Number: 75771
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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