IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82588 accession number: C.20 & A & B-1980 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, shades of green, yellow, orange dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. The cup is of truncated conical form with two loop handles, foliated at the upper and lower ends. The domed cover is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a multi-petalled flower and three leaves. The saucer is circular with a flat base and deep, sloping sides. There is a suspension hole in the interior edge of the cover, and in the footring. On one side of the cup there are two exotic birds perched in a tree with mosses, grasses, and a flowering plant at its foot. On the other side is a tree in the branches of which is a nest containing three nestlings, and a parent bird. Another bird stands on the ground amid similar flora. On the cover there are two landscapes each with a bird standing on the ground, and two flying birds in the spaces between them, one carrying a branch in its beak. On the saucer there are three landscapes, two with a bird on the ground, and a bird perched in a tree, and one with a bird standing on the ground. In the middle, there are three flying birds, one carrying a branch in its beak. There is a plain gold band round the base of the cup and dentilated gold bands round the rim of all three pieces. The handles are outlined in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels with landscapes and birds, and gilded title: two-handled cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly Hugh Burton-Jones who built up his collection of Vincennes and Sèvres in the 1930s and 1940s; his daughter Mrs Kathleen Dorothy Gifford Scott; Winifred Williams (Robert Williams), 3 Bury Street, London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given jointly by the National Art Collections Fund and Professor J.H. Plumb, FBA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82588 PEOPLE ------------------- Gifford Scott, K. Mrs SUBJECTS ------------------- birds landscape birds landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: An Exhibition of 18th Century French Porcelain CITATIONS -------- An Exhibition of 18th Century French Porcelain, Vincennes, Sèvres, St. Cloud, Chantilly & Mennecy National Art-Collections Fund Annual Report 1980 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum How to buy a Stubbs on £2,600 a Year, The Fitzwilliam and the N.A.C.F. Les Marques de Sèvres Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Decorator and Date marks on C18th Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection Part 1: Important French Porcelain Two Noble Collections, Powderham Castle & Seaton Delaval Hall Obituaries. Sir John Plumb Obituaries: Sir John Plumb An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. 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