IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82542 accession number: C.13.2 & A-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue enamel and gilding. The vase stands on a circular pedestal foot. The ovoid body contracts above the widest point to the circular mouth thus forming a shoulder. The 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 blue enamel, 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.13.1 & A-1947. object type: Soft-paste porcelain with pierced shoulders 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. Purchased from the Antique Porcelain Company, October, 1947 for £140. 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/82542 PEOPLE ------------------- Duke of Kent Pompadour, Madame de SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers carnation flowers carnation TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, painted overglaze in blue enamel and gilded; the flower finial hand-modelled. throwing 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# CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory 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 Madame de Pompadour et Vincennes/Sèvres, Chronologie d'une Passion Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Vincennes Porcelain Important Continental Porcelain and Pottery Sèvres des Origines à nos Jours 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. A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg height: 627 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg height: 413 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg height: 627 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels