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Factory: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain tobacco jar and cover, lead-glazed, and painted in enamels with floral sprays.
Soft-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and dark-pink enamels. The glaze is speckled on the exterior. Cylindrical with recessed base, and domed cover, with an unglazed flange which fits inside the jar, and an applied knob in the shape of a rose bud, a smaller undeveloped bud, and three leaves on a stalk. The jar is decorated with one large floral spray comprising a tulip, a rose, forget-me-knots, convolvulus and pink daisies, and four smaller floral sprays. The cover is decorated with one large and one small floral spray, and has a dark puce band round the outer edge. The knob is painted in two shades of pink and green.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 16.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1947-07-23) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
The cover may be a 'marriage'.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, and rose-pink)
Jar
Diameter 8.7 cm
Height 11.9 cm
Cover
Diameter 9 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular paper label printed with a back border with the lettering reserved in white
Accession number: C.9 & A-1947
Primary reference Number: 82392
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tobacco jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/82392 Accessed: 2024-12-18 17:13:28
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