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Compotier from the Rittener Service
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Commelin, Michel-Gabriel
Gilder:
Vincent, Henry-François
Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with a central bunch of flowers and foliage, surrounded by floral borders, and gilded.
Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, pink, and pinkish-red, enamels, and gilded. Circular with deep, curved sides, standing on a low footring in which there is a suspension hole. In the centre there is a bunch of flowers, comprising three pinkish-red roses, a rosebud, several stems of blue cornflowers, and green leaves, surrounded by two concentric blue lines linked at intervals by eight pairs of slanting wavy gold lines. The sides have a wide border comprising concentric bands of decoration as follows: (a) Groups of three flower stems, a blue, a pink, and a blue cornflower, alternating with a pinkish-red rose, a blue cornflower, and a pinkish-red rose, divided from each other by a green stylised plant. (b) Above and below (a), a narrow blue line and a series of stylised pinkish-red flowers on green stalks, divided from each other by diagonal pinkish-red lines. (c) Above and below (b), a narrow gold line, a blue line, and a wider gold line.
History note: Unknown before donor, Ralph Hare Griffin (1854-1941)
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 20.8 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date:
circa
AD 1791
: The oo date mark indicates 1791 rather than 1792
Deep serving dishes described as 'compotiers' were made in several shapes from the Vincennes period onwards. This is almost certainly one of four 'compotiers ronds' costing 24 livres each which formed part of a dinner and dessert service purchased by Enoch Rittener, a London china merchant, in March 1791. The design is similar to no. 115 in the factory's Album of Plate Designs.
The gilder, Henry-François Vincent's mark 2000, was a pun on his name. He worked at Vincennes frm 1753 and retired in 1800.
The painter, Michel-Gabriel Commelin (1746-1802), worked at the factory from 1766 or 1768 until 1800 when he was dismissed. He was reinstated in 1801 and died in 1802. On 15 January 1791, he was paid 6 livres for painting four compotiers ronds for the service purchased by Rittener. These cost 24 livres each.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, pink, dark pink and black)
gold
Glaze
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed lead-glaze)
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, painted in blue, green, pink, dark pink, and black enamels, and gilded
Inscription present: joined lower case letters
Accession number: C.195-1918
Primary reference Number: 86627
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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