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Factory: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain tobacco jar and cover, lead-glazed and painted in polychrome enamels with floral sprays and a butterfly.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed,and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, puce, purple, and black enamels, with silver mounts on the rim of the cover. Cylindrical, the upper part of the sides moulded with wavy flutes, the base, recessed. The domed cover is moulded with radiating flutes, and has an artichoke finial and a silver mount with a scalloped interior edge. There is a small suspension hole in the base, and another in the interior edge of the cover. The jar is decorated with three large floral bouquets, and detached sprigs and leaves, and with a single blue and yellow butterfly. The cover has applied japonica/prunus leaves and buds radiating from a central bud-shaped knob, and is painted with floral sprigs in the spaces round the edge.
History note: Uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, third quarter#
Louis XV
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, orange, dark pink, pale purple, and black)
Mounts
composed of
silver
( mount to edge of cover)
Jar
Diameter 8.5 cm
Cover
Diameter 9.2 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, of creamy tone, extremely translucent, moulded, lead-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, puce, purple, and black enamels, with a silver mount on the edge of the cover
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.65 & A-1950
Primary reference Number: 82394
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/82394 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:54:48
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