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Plateau carré
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Evans, Etienne
(Probably)
Soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels, and gilding: two birds carrying branches.
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding. Square with low, sloping sides, slightly warped in firing. The unglazed base is pinkish in places, and is speckled in black all over. It has a suspension hole near the left edge (when front is to viewer). The central area is painted in polychrome with two birds carrying branches in their claws. The sides are bleu céleste with a band of gilt flowers and foliage at their junction with the base, and a band of dentilated gilding round the upper edge.
History note: Acquired by Louis C.G. Clarke before October 1948 when included in an inventory of his collection at Leckhampton, Cambridge; bequeathed by him, 1960.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequst, 1960
Height: 1.9 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1760
: The tray bears the date letter G once thought to stand for 1759, or 1759-60, but since 2014, has been revised to 1760.
Etienne Evans (b. c. 1723) , who worked at the factory from 1752-1806, had formerly been a fan painter. He became a specialist in bird-painting.
The plateau carré with plain sides was in production by 1753. This is the third and smallest size which from 1755 was usually supplied as part of a dejeuner carré with a cup and saucer, or a cup only. Overglaze bleu céleste grounds were introduced in 1753.
Decoration
composed of
ground colour
( bleu celeste)
enamels
( blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown)
gold
Interior And Sides
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed lead-glaze)
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated overglaze with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: interlaced L's enclosing G with a dot each side of the top of the Ls and a dot in the centre below
Inscription present: a dagger looking like a cross
Inscription present: 6c or bc
Accession number: C.18-1961
Primary reference Number: 93553
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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