IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82572 accession number: C.4B-1955 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with painting in blue, pale green, greyish-green, yellow, brownish-orange, dark pink, and mauve enamels, and gilding. The glaze is slightly speckled inside and outside. The vase stands on a D-shaped solid base. The back of the bowl is almost flat with a depression on either side of the centre. The front is curved, and divided into two lobes, separated by stylised foliage in relief which curve below each lobe and rise to form small handles at each end. The wavy upper edge is divided and folded back at each end. Each of the lobes is painted with a bouquet of flowers. The relief foliage is touched with blue and gold; the upper edge is feathered in blue, and there are gold bands round the upper edge, and round the edge of the base. As a pair with C.4A-1955. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in polychrome enamels, with bouquets of flowers, and gilded title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought with C.4A-1955 from Mr Cecil Gould, May 1955 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82572 PEOPLE ------------------- Gould, Cecil SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and decorated with painting in blue, pale green, greyish-green, yellow, brownish-orange, dark pink, and mauve enamels, and gilding. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1751 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1751 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 13.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 Important Continental Porcelain and Pottery Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 29th-30th March 1971 Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Sèvres des Origines à nos Jours La Porcelaine de Vincennes British and Continental Ceramics Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th-century European Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_4_1955_20B_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_C_4_1955_20B_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: 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