IDENTIFIERS
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id:	82394
accession number:	C.65 & A-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 13 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain tobacco jar and cover, lead-glazed and painted in polychrome enamels with floral sprays and a butterfly.
title:	tobacco jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82394


SUBJECTS
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butterfly
flowers
butterfly
flowers



TECHNIQUES
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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
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	Louis XV

CREATORS
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maker: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15



CITATIONS
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An Exhibition of 18th Century French Porcelain, Vincennes, Sèvres, St. Cloud, Chantilly & Mennecy
La manufacture de porcelaine de Mennecy Villeroy
French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection
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