IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82541 accession number: C.13.1 & A-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, lead-glazed, and painted in blue enamel, and gilded. The urn-shaped vase stands on a circular pedestal foot with a moulding round the foot. The ogee-domed cover is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a large and a small carnation on a stem. The shoulder of the vase, and the cover, are each pierced with six oval apertures surrounded by stylised foliage in low relief. The shoulder of the vase is at a slightly lower level that the rest of the body and is divided from it by a gold band with curves below the apertures. The white ground is decorated with sprays of flowers in bleu camaïeu, and the carnation finial is touched with blue. There are two bands of gilding round the foot and serrated bands round the junction of the foot and body and round the lip and on the edge of the cover. The moulding round the apertures and the stem of the finial are gilded. A pair with C.13.2 & A-1947. object type: Soft-paste porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, painted in blue enamel with sprays of flowers, and gilded. title: pot-pourri vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: The late Duke of Kent; Christie's, 13 March 1947, Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, p. 13, lot 163; the Antique Porcelain Company, from whom purchased in October, 1947 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82541 PEOPLE ------------------- Pompadour, Madame de Duke of Kent SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers carnation flowers carnation TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, lead-glazed, painted in blue enamel and gilded; the flower finial hand-modelled 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 14.8 CITATIONS -------- Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Friends of the Fitzwilliam, Thirty-ninth Annual Report, for the Year 1947 Madame de Pompadour et Vincennes/Sèvres, Chronologie d'une Passion Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après son décès Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Vincennes Porcelain Important Continental Porcelain and Pottery French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York, Important European Ceramics and Objects of Vertu An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. 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