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Factory:
Sceaux Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Duvivier, Fidelle
(Probably)
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with exotic birds amongs trees and bushes, and with pink bands round the rims of the jug and cover
Soft-paste porcelain painted in muddy shades of blue, green, yellowish-green, dark pink, brown, and black enamels. Pear-shaped body with a projecting lip, and single loop handle. Slightly domed cover with a projection to cover the lip surmounted by a knob in the shape of a rosebud and two leaves. On the side opposite to the projection there is a hole near the edge. The jug is decorated on one side with an exotic bird standing beside a tree in which a smaller, different bird is perching, and with a smaller bird standing on the ground to the left On the other side there is one bird standing between two trees. Below the spout there are two flying birds. There are blue strokes at the base of the lip, and pairs of short slanting lines on the top of the handle. The cover is painted with an exotic bird standing beside a bush, and with two small flying bird. The rims of jug and cover are encircled by rose-pink bands.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, Cambridge
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Height: 14 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1943-05-20) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, third quarter#
Louis XV
Circa
1775
CE
-
1780
CE
The hole in the cover is probably intended for the attachment of a mount and thumbpiece. The decoration is in the style of the porcelain painter, Fidelle Duvivier, who was working at Sceaux by 1775, and had moved to Loosdrecht in the Netherlands by the mid 1780s.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellowish-green, brown, rose-pink, and black)
Handle-belly
Width 11.6 cm
Cover
Jug
assumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: EC.4 & A-1943
Primary reference Number: 82215
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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