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Factory:
Niderviller Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor:
Custine, Adam-Phlippe, comte de
Soft-paste porcelain sugar bowl and cover, glazed, and painted in enamels with figures and insects in landscape, and gilded on the edges.
Soft-paste porcelain, glazed and painted in shades of green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, grey, and black enamel, and gilt. The bowl has deep sides curving inwards to the low spreading foot. The domed cover has an applied knob in the shape of a fruit and a leaf on a twig. The bowl is decorated on one side with a landscape with buildings and two male figures, and on the other with a ladybird, a butterfly, and a bee (?). On the cover there is a smaller landscape with buildings, a dragonfly, a little beetle, and a fly. There are gold bands round the foot, the rim, and the edge of the cover, and touches of gold on the finial.
History note: H.E. Backer, 1 Elm Tree Road, St John's Wood, London. NW8 from whom purchased for £10 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1946-04) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Comte de Custine period
Circa
1770
CE
-
1793
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, grey and black)
gold
Bowl
Diameter 8.4 cm
Cover
Diameter 8.8 cm
Inscription present: script N
Accession number: EC.7 & A-1946
Primary reference Number: 82438
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sugar bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/82438 Accessed: 2024-12-18 18:08:46
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