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Factory: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory
Handleless cup and saucer of soft-paste porcelain decorated in enamels in Kakiemon style with bees and floral sprays
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, and black enamels in Kakiemon style. The cup is of truncated conical form with fluted sides and scalloped and cusped rim. The saucer is lobed and cusped. One side of the cup is painted with a bee with a yellow and brown striped body, and brown and red wings, and the other with two floral sprays, one smaller than the other. The saucer is painted with a similar bee, and with one small, and one large floral spray. The rim of the cup and of the saucer is edged with brown.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph
18th Century, Mid
Louis XV
Circa
1730
CE
-
1750
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, red, brown, and black)
Saucer
Diameter 15 cm
Height 3.2 cm
Cup
Diameter 8.3 cm
Height 6.7 cm
Soft-paste porcelain
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain with opaque white tin-glaze, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, and black enamels
Painting
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.190 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 82185
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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