IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82517 accession number: C.13.1 & A & B-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 overglaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, dark pink, purple, brown and grey enamels, and gilding. The stand is oval with rim notched to create two long and two short lobes. The basin is oval with deep sloping sides and a domed cover with a handle formed by two looped and interlaced branches with moulded leaves at the junction of the ends with the cover. The basin and stand each has one suspension hole in the footring, and the cover one in the middle of one side of the internal flange. All pieces have a bleu lapis ground. The bowl is decorated with two oval reserves and the cover and stand with two tri-lobate reserves, framed by gold palms, flowers and foliage. Each reserve is painted in polychrome enamels with two flying birds. On the bowl, one bird carries a branch in its claws. On the stand one in each reserve carries a branch in its claws, and on the cover, one bird in one reserve carries a branch in its claws, and in the other one carries one in its beak. The stand has a plain band of gilding round the foot and a dentilated band round the rim. The bowl has a plain band of gilding round the foot and a dentilated band round the rim. The cover has a dentilated band of gilding round the outer edge and touches of gilding on the handle terminals and where they cross in the centre. object type: soft-paste porcelain sugar basin, cover and stand, decorated with an underglaze blue ground (bleu lapis), and reserves painted in enamels with flowers, foliage and birds, and gilded. title: sugar basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D., (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge 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: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82517 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds palm flowers foliage birds palm flowers foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain , moulded, decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, orange, dark pink, purple, brown and grey enamels, and gilding with tooled details. The basin and stand each has a hole in the footrim, and the cover in the middle of the internal flange moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing 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 CITATIONS -------- Le porcellane francesi a Palazzo Pitti Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres La Porcelaine de Vincennes French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York, Important European Ceramics and Objects of Vertu ---