These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Gobelet à lait et soucoupe
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain covered cup and saucer, painted in enamels and gilded, with a trellis pattern and flowers.
Soft-paste porcelain painted in green ground colour, and in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and mauve enamels, and gilded. The cup is of truncated conical form with two loop handles with a longitudinal ridge, and a slightly domed cover with a knob in the shape of a multi-petalled flower and six leaves on a stalk. The saucer is circular with a flat base and deep, sloping sides. The cup, cover, and saucer are decorated all over with a trellis pattern of green and gold twisted ribbons, with sprays of polychrome flowers in the spaces. On the cover, the trellis is in the form of overlapping petal outlines radiating from the centre. The green and the gilding on the twisted ribbons is different from that on the other two pieces, and there are no yellow and orange flowers in the floral sprays. The flower knob is pink, and the leaves green. There is a plain band of gilding round the foot and scalloped bands round rim of the cup, cover, and saucer. The handles have a longitudinal twisted ribbon, and gold lines on the edges.
History note: Acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D. (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge
Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (0191-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
AD 1756
: The saucer bears the date letter for 1756.
The cover does not match the other two pieces and is probably a later 'marriage'
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and mauve)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 18.6 cm
Height 3.8 cm
Cup And Cover
Height 12.4 cm
Cup
Height 8.7 cm
Cup With Handles
Width 14.4 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain painted in green ground colour, and in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and mauve enamels, and gilded
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: on saucer the mark is faint and slightly blurred
Inscription present: 4 on the left and ap further to the right
Accession number: C.14 & A & B-1961
Primary reference Number: 93545
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
Mirador deep zoom
IIIF Manifest
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Gobelet à lait et soucoupe" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/93545 Accessed: 2024-12-18 10:49:20
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/93545
|title=Gobelet à lait et soucoupe
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 10:49:20|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-93545
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_14_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1961_20_281_29.jpg"
alt="Gobelet à lait et soucoupe"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Gobelet à lait et soucoupe</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
