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Toilet Jar and Cover
Factory: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain painted underglaze in dark blue
Soft-paste porcelain of creamy tone painted underglaze in dark blue. Cylindrical with slightly irregular sides and recessed base. The domed cover has a flange which fits inside the jar and a flat-topped circular knob. There is a zig-zag border round the lower edge of the jar, and a lambrequin border at the top. The cover has the same pattern round its outer edge, and the knob is decorated with a seven-petalled flower.
History note: Viscount Harcourt; Dowager Viscountess Harcourt; sold Sotheby's, 16 November 1945, Catalogue of Fine Continental, English and Chinese Porcelain, French and English Furniture, Works of Art, etc., part of lot 20 (two items for £12).
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Method of acquisition: Given (1945) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Trou period
Circa
1720
CE
-
1740
CE
Decoration
composed of
blue pigment
( cobalt)
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Cover
Diameter 8.7 cm
Over Knob
Height 7.3 cm
Decorationq
Jar
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: the t of St is raised and looks like a 4
Accession number: EC.37 & A-1945
Primary reference Number: 82177
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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