IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82468 accession number: C.12 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: mustard pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis C.G. Clarke (2 May 1881-13 December 196), Cambridge, by whom acquired before October 1948 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82468 PEOPLE ------------------- putto SUBJECTS ------------------- bird landscape bird landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in monochrome puce enamel and gilding. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1753 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1753 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory maker: Vielliard, André-Vincent DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.7 CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, Furniture, Textiles, Sèvres Porcelains and Other Objects The Wrightsman Collection IV: Porcelain Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French L'oeuvre de Vielliard d'Après Boucher François Boucher Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_12_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 572 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_12_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 664 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_12_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 572 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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