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Factory: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with exotic birds and flowers.
Soft-paste porcelain of creamy tone, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, mauve, and grey enamels, and gilt. The cup has deep sides, curving inwards to the footring, and a loop handle. The circular saucer has curved sides, and a footring.The cup is decorated on the sides with two small bunches of roses and other flowers, and on the front, with two exotic birds, a large one standing on the ground and the other, much smaller, perched in a tree. There is a dentilated gold band round the rim, a plain gold band round the foot, a gold line down both sides of the handle, and dots alternating with four formal leaves down its back. The saucer is painted with two floral sprays and an exotic bird standing on the ground and one perched in a tree, and has a dentilated gold band round the rim.
History note: The Rev. G.A. Schneider, Cambridge; sold Sotheby's, 4 June 1942, Catalogue of European Ceramics and Glass comprising the interesting and extensive collection of the Rev. G.A. Schneider (decd), p. 18, part of lot 84; the lot sold for £10 to Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, by whom given to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid
Louis XV
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, red, brown, mauve, and grey)
Edges
composed of
gold
Saucer
Diameter 12 cm
Height 2.8 cm
Cup Rim
Diameter 7.4 cm
Cup
Height 6.3 cm
Cup Handle To Rim
Width 9.7 cm
Handle
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: EC.43 & A-1942
Primary reference Number: 82206
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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