IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93542 accession number: C.7 & A-1956 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and mauve enamels, and gilded. Cylindrical cup with double-curved handle. Circular saucer with flat central area and deep, sloping sides. There is a hole for suspension in the footring of each piece.The cup has a ground of mauve stripes, each flanked by a gold line, a blue line and a line of gold dots, alternating with reserved white stripes decorated with small gold floral sprays. Encircling the cup there are two large and two small shaped reserves linked to each other. The two large ones contain wreaths of laurel leaves and red berries tied at the top with a bow of mauve ribbon from which is suspended a posy of three pink roses and leaves. The wreaths are linked by swags passing through the two small reserves, each composed of three posies of three pink roses linked by sprays of leaves. There are bands of gilding round the base and rim, lines down the sides of the handle and a stylised leaf. and two bell flowers separated by spots down its back. In the centre of the saucer there are two concentric gold circles from which radiate mauve stripes like those on the cup. They end at varying distances from the centre, so that they form a cross-shape with incurved sides and ends. The sides are decorated en suite with the cup with four large reserved linked by four small, each containing a posy of three roses and leaves. There is a band of gilding round the rim. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamels with mauve and white stripes, and with wreaths, bows, and posies in reserves, and gilded title: cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis Colville Gray Clarke, MA, Leckhampton, Cambridge; lent to The Fitzwilliam Museum in 1947; given, 1956 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93542 SUBJECTS ------------------- wreath bow laurel rose wreath bow laurel rose TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and mauve enamels, and gilded. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Noël, Guillaume CITATIONS -------- The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle Collection Charles-Otto Zieseniss --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_7_20_26_20A_1956.jpg 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