IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82524 accession number: C.7-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, purple, grey enamels, and gilding. The ewer stands on a domed quatrefoil foot. The body swells out above the foot and then contracts in a concave curve before flaring upwards and outwards at the front to form the lip, and up and over in a wave-like curve in the same direction on the opposite side. The handle is approximately ear-shaped with a moulded scroll at the junction with the body at the top just below the wave, and at the lower end just above the widest point. On each side there is a pear-shaped reserve painted in polychrome with two flying birds, the lower of the two holding a branch in its claws, and framed by gilded palms, flowers and foliage . Beneath the lip is an elaborate scroll and swag design in gold, and round the foot, a garland of flowers and foliage with tooled details. There are two bands of gilding round the outer edge of the foot, and just below the rim, following its contours, a single band. with a decorative motif and a garland of flowers below the lip. On the edge of the rim there is a dentilated band. The handle is white with lines of gilding down the sides and a form leaf spray at the top. Part of a set with C.7A-1961 object type: Soft-paste porcelain ewer, decorated with a bleu lapis ground, and reserves painted in enamels with flying birds, surrounded by gilded flowers and foliage title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis C.G. Clarke, 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/82524 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds flowers foliage flying birds flowers foliage flying TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, purple, grey enamels, and gilding with tooled details. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory maker: Duplessis, Jean-Claude Chambellan, père CITATIONS -------- Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux marchand-bijoutier ordinaire du Roy 1748-1758, précédé d’une étude sur le gout e sur le commerce des objets d’art au milieu du XVIIIe siècle Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Catalogue des Porcelaines Françaises de M.J. Pierpont Morgan Vincennes Porcelain French Porcelain from the J.P. Morgan Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum Fine Decorative Arts: Baroque to Neo-Classicism The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection Comment reconnaître une porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIIIe siècle An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. 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