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Moutardier ordinaire
Factory:
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Vielliard, André-Vincent
Soft-paste porcelain mustard pot and cover, decorated with a bleu lapis ground, a reserve painted in crimson enamel with a putto seated in landscape, and gilding.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in monochrome crimson enamel (camaïeu pourpre), and gilding. Barrel-shaped with two raised horizontal fillets at the top and at the base, and a loop handle. The almost flat cover has a semi-circular aperture for the mustard spoon and a knob in the shape of a fruit on a branch. There is a small hole for suspension in the footring and another in the cover.On the front there is an approximately oval reserve framed by trailing sprays of foliage and flowers in gold, and painted in crimson monochrome (camaieu pourpre) with a putto in a landscape. The chubby infant sits on a drapery, with his right leg almost straight, the other bent, and both arms outstretched towards a flying bird attached to a string which he holds in his left hand. There are two bands of gilding round the foot and raised fillet, one on the fillet above the reserve, and a dentilated band round the rim. The cover has a dentilated gold band round the outer edge and a gold finial. There are lines of gilding down the sides of the handle and three stylised flowers and eight dots of graduated size on its back.
History note: Louis C.G. Clarke (2 May 1881-13 December 196), Cambridge, by whom acquired before October 1948
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 8.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1752
CE
-
1753
CE
The form is mentioned in the inventory of October 1752, and a design is preserved at the factory, inscribed with the date 19 February 1752. The mustard pots were accompanied by lobed stands of two slightly different forms. See Documentation, Paris (1978), pp. 59-60.
This mustard pot probably dates from late 1752 or the first eight months of 1753 because Vielliard did not enter the factory until September that year, and it does not bear the date letter A assigned in 1845 to 1753, but probably not introduced until 1754.
Decoration
composed of
underglaze blue ground
( bleu lapis)
enamels
gold
Rim
Diameter 4.8 cm
Body And Handle
Width 8.4 cm
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in monochrome puce enamel and gilding.
Inscription present: narrow rectangular white paper label
Accession number: C.12 & A-1961
Primary reference Number: 82468
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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