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Factory: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with a central floral spray and on the rim with three smaller floral sprays
Soft-paste porcelain of creamy tone, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, pale purple, and brown enamels. Circular with a wavy edge, gently sloping rim with four areas of wavy fluting, and shallow well, standing on a footring. Decorated in the centre with a large floral spray including a tulip, and on the rim, with three smaller sprays respectively of a rose, convolvulus and a yellow flower. The outer edge of the rim is outlined in brown.
History note: The Rev. G.A. Schneider; sold Sotheby's, 4 June 1942, Catalogue of European Ceramics and Glass comprising the interesting and extensive collection of the Rev. G.A. Schneider, p. 18, lot 84; sold for £10 to Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, Cambridge
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Diameter: 23.8 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid
Louis XV
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and brown)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain of creamy tone, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and brown enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: EC.40-1942
Primary reference Number: 82187
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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