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pot à jus or pot à crème
Factory: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain custard cup and cover, lead-glazed, and painted in enamels with floral sprays.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, rose-pink, and purple enamels. The underside of the rim of the cover is unglazed. The bulbous cup stands on a footring and has a loop handle. The domed cover has a finial in the shape of a rose bud on a leaf. The exterior of the cup and cover are entirely covered with shallow slanting fluting. The cup is decorated with one large floral spray including a rose and tulip, and two smaller floral sprays; the cover with one large spray including a rose, one small spray and two leaves. The knob is painted in pink and green. There is a rose-pink line round the edge of the cover and patches of pink on the handle.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 9.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
Louis XV
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
In England this form is usually described as a custard cup, but in France was known as a pot à jus (meat jus or gravy pot) or later in the 18th century as a pot à crème. The strong rose pink is typical of Mennecy, and was used round the edges instead of gilding which was reserved to the royal factory at Sèvres.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, and rose-pink)
Cover
Diameter 5.9 cm
Handle To Rim
Width 8.5 cm
Knob
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, and rose-pink enamels
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: the D and V are sloping inwards slightly, not side by side
Accession number: C.66 & A-1950
Primary reference Number: 82395
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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