IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82456 accession number: MAR.C.37 & A & B-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 1 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Glazed soft-paste porcelain painted in gold. The circular cup stands on a low foot and has two handles in the form of branches with leaves in relief at the junction of their lower ends with the body. The domed cover has a handle in the shape of a branch with leaves in relief at the junction of one end with the cover. The circular saucer has curved sides and a circular rib in the centre to enclose the foot of the cup. The white ground is painted in gold with trophies, vignettes of animals and fish, and with arrangements of rocaille scrolls, foliage and flowers. On the cup: (a) a spaniel chasing a duck and (b) a stag brought down by a hound. On the cover (a) a squirrel amid plants, (b) a stag couchant, (c) a posy of flowers and leaves. On the saucer: (a) in the centre, a large fish amid reeds, (b) on the sides, a trophy comprising a basket, a girl's hat, houlette tied with ribbon, and a bag; a trophy comprising a boy's hat, lyre, trumpet, and wind instrument; and a fanciful building, each supported by an arrangemens of scolls, floral sprays and foliage. The handles are gold and there are gold bands round the foot and rim of the cup, the central rim of the saucer, and the outer edges of the saucer and cover. object type: Soft-paste porcelain two-handled cup, cover and saucer decorated in gold with foliage, flowers and vignettes of animals and fish. title: two-handled cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82456 SUBJECTS ------------------- trophy spaniel duck hound stag fish flowers leaves trophy spaniel duck hound stag fish flowers leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown, with applied moulded handles, glazed, and painted in gold with tooled details throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- turning CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain La Porcelaine de Vincennes Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 9th November 1987 Vincennes and early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection Vincennes Porcelain in the British Museum The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Sotheby's Sale Catalogue Early French Soft Paste Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_MAR_C_37_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 200 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/445/large_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_2_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/445/mid_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_2_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.C.37 & A & B-1912_2_200812_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/445/preview_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_2_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/445/MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_2_200812_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3110 pixels width: 4665 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/441/large_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_1_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/441/mid_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_1_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.C.37 & A & B-1912_1_200812_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/441/preview_MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_1_200812_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/441/MAR_C_37___A___B_1912_1_200812_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels