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Soucoupe à pied pour tasses à glace
Translated as: footed saucer for ice cream cups
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain tray for ice cups, painted in enamels and gilded with a floral spray, encircled by interlaced green ribbons and a garland of flowers.
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with bluish-green ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, orange-red, mauve, and black enamels, and gilding. Circular with twelve-lobed, slightly raised edge, standing on a low foot with concave-curved, twelve-lobed sides.There is a hole for suspension inside the edge of the stand. In the centre of the top painted in polychrome is a small floral spray, including a rose, encircled by two gold-edged green ribbons, interlaced to form six ovals, around and in which is entwined a garland of flowers. The outer edge of the tray is green, with a scalloped gold line inside it, following the curves of the lobes and having a floriated loop at the intersection of each.
History note: Ole Olsen Collection, Copenhagen. Purchased from H.E. Backer, London; given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 22.9 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1957-11-21) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
1757
CE
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1758
CE
Soucoupes à pied were used as a stands for ice cream cups, or for dried fruits. This is probably one of eight soucoupes à pied costing 144 livres each from the service given to the Empress Maria-Theresa by Louis XV in 1758, the much of which is in the Hofburg, Vienna. The pieces in the service bear date letters for 1757 (D) and 1758 (E)
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, pink, orange-red, mauve, and black) ground colour ( blueish-green) gold
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, orange-red, mauve, and black enamels and gilded.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: interlaced L's enclosing E
Inscription present: not as typed
Inscription present: script Lf
Accession number: C.2-1957
Primary reference Number: 93544
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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