IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82563 accession number: C.3 & A-1951 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain thrown, decorated with underglaze blue (bleu lapis) and overglaze green ground colours, painting in blue, greyish-green, yellow, dark pink, and brownish-orange enamels and gilding. Cylindrical cup with loop handle. Circular saucer with flat central area, deep sloping sides, and a suspension hole in the footring. The cup is striped with wavy diagonal green and dark blue (bleu lapis) ribbons, edged with gold lines and dots, alternating with reserved white stripes, each decorated sprays of polychrome flowers. There is a band of gilding round the base and a dentilated band round the rim. There are gold lines down the sides of the handle and a leaf, and teardrops of graduated size down its back. The saucer is striped en suite with the cup, but has two sprays of flowers on each white stripe. The ribbons run across the saucer from side to side, curving on two sides to form arcs. There is a dentilated gold band round the rim. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels and gilding, with wavy diagonal stripes and sprays of flowers. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.E. Backer, 1 Elm Tree Road, St John's Wood, London, NW8 from whom purchased for £35 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/82563 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower sprays flower sprays TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown, lead-glazed decorated in underglaze blue, in blue, green, yellow dark pink, and brownish-orange enamels and gilding. throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire universel de commerce 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 The French Royal Porcelain Sèvres, The Marton Museum Collection Samobor/Francuski kraljevski porculan, Kolkcija Muzeja Marton Samobor ---