IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82551 accession number: MAR.C.33 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, shades of green, a little yellow, pale and dark pink, and purple enamels, and gilding. Cylindrical cup with arched and incurved handle. Circular saucer with flat central area and sloping sides. There is a suspension hole in the footring of the saucer. Both pieces have a bleu céleste ground. The cup has an oval reserve painted in polychrome with a spray of flowers, surrounded by a gilt frame of palms, scrolls and floral sprays, extending over the ground to right and left,. There is a band of gilding round the foot, a dentilated band round the rim, and lines of gilding down the sides of the handle, which also has a leaf at the top, and groups of three tiny leaves alternating with spots down its back. The saucer has a central reserve painted with a different spray of flowers, framed by palms, floral sprays, and scrolls enclosing a diaper pattern and striations respectively. There is a dentilated gold band round the rim. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer decorated with a bleu celeste ground, floral sprays in enamels, and gilding. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator, Charles Brinsely Marlay (1831-1912), St Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82551 SUBJECTS ------------------- leaves flower sprays leaves flower sprays TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a bleu celeste ground, painting in blue, shades of green, a little yellow, pale and dark pink, and purple enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory maker: Chappuis, Antoine-Joseph maker: Houry, Pierre maker: Vandé, Jean-Baptiste-Emmanuel CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire universel de commerce Les Marques de Sèvres The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_33_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_MAR_C_33_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_33_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_MAR_C_33_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_33.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 747 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_MAR_C_33.jpg height: 509 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_33.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 747 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_MAR_C_33.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/425/large_MAR_C_33___A_1912_2_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/425/mid_MAR_C_33___A_1912_2_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.C.33 & A-1912_2_200901_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/425/preview_MAR_C_33___A_1912_2_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/425/MAR_C_33___A_1912_2_200901_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/424/large_MAR_C_33___A_1912_1_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/424/mid_MAR_C_33___A_1912_1_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.C.33 & A-1912_1_200901_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/424/preview_MAR_C_33___A_1912_1_200901_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/424/MAR_C_33___A_1912_1_200901_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3328 pixels width: 4992 pixels