IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82589 accession number: MAR.C.34-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 20 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, orange-red, mauve and black enamels and gilding. The jug stands on three branch feet. Its bulbous body contracts at the neck and then flares upwards and outwards at the front to form a lip, the rim at the sides being slightly everted and notched. The crabstock handle rises up directly from the rim and curves upwards and then outwards and downwards until it meets the most bulbous part of the body. Small sprays of flowers and foliage in relief sprout from the junctions of the legs and handle with the body. The ground is bleu céleste with a pear-shaped reserve below the lip, painted in polychrome with a bouquet of mixed flowers and foliage, and framed by a band of tooled gilding. Round the neck there are looped garlands of gold leaves, and two sprays descend inside on either side of the lip All the applied flowers and leaves are gilded, and there are touches of gilding on the handle and feet. object type: soft-paste porcelain milk jug, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels with flowers and foliage, and gilt title: milk jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before C.B. Marlay 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/82589 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers foliage flowers foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.5 CITATIONS -------- The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain État des porcelaines trouvées en biscuit lors de l'inventaire des effets remis par Charles Adam à Éloi Brichard le 18 8br, 1752 The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres La Porcelaine de Vincennes --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_34_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_MAR_C_34_1912.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/MAR_C_34_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_MAR_C_34_1912.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/429/large_MAR_C_34_1912_200902_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/437/429/mid_MAR_C_34_1912_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.C.34-1912_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/429/preview_MAR_C_34_1912_200902_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/437/429/MAR_C_34_1912_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5120 pixels width: 3413 pixels