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Tray for a Dejeuner
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Vielliard, André-Vincent
Teniers, David II
(In the style of)
Soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with an underglaze blue ground reserves painted in enamels with genre scenes in the style of Teniers, and gilding. Part of a dejeuner.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting overglaze in blue, several shades of green, dark yellow, pink, red, pale purple, and several shades of brown enamels, and gilding. Rectangular tray with shallow, sloping sides, standing on four short, tapering feet. There is a suspension hole in the base in the middle of the lower edge. The sides have a bleu lapis ground caillouté in gold, with a gold scroll and diaper motif in each corner. The flat area is white pointillé in gold. In the centre there is an oval reserve with an elaborate frame, comprising scrolls, rocaille shells and two panels of two different trellis diaper pattenrs, and painted in polychrome with a genre scene in the style of Teniers. Two men and two women are seated at a table in front of a cottage, while a standing man behind them holds out a jug for refilling to a woman standing inside the house. There are doves and a dovecote on the left-hand wall of the cottage and a landscape behind it. A narrow gold line and a wider gold line run round the edge of the flat area, and there is a gold band over the upper edge, dentilated on the exterior.
Part of a dejeuner with a milk jug, cup and saucer, and covered sugar basin
History note: Alfred Hill; sold by Sotheby's, 15 May 1942, Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture...The Property of Alfred Hill, (decd), p. 14, lot 64; acquired by Mallett's for £58; Louis Colville Gray Clarke, MA, Leckhampton, Cambridge
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 3.6 cm
Length: 24.6 cm
Width: 17.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1759
: The tray bears the date letter for 1759
Genre scenes in the style of David Teniers the Younger derived from, or inspired by prints by Jacques-Phlippe Lebas, were very popular as decoration on Sèvres during the 1760s (see Documentation, Carey, 2007). This scene also occurs on vases painted between 1759 and 1762 in the Royal Collection, the Wallace Collection, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. See Documentation.
This drawer-like tray form with little tapering feet, known as a plateau tiroir appears in the factory’s inventory in 1756, when four were mentioned as awaiting glazing, and a version with pierced sides, described as à jour was introduced in 1757. It was made in two sizes, of which this is the first and largest size. The trays were usually sold with tea things, and this is accompanied by a matching cup and saucer, milk jug, and sugar bowl and cover. The fullest coverage of the early documentary evidence for this form in the Kiln Books in the Institute de France, and sales records is given by Roth and Le Corbeiller (see Documentation 2000).
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, several shades of green, dark yellow, pink, red, pale purple, and several shades of brown) ground colour ( cobalt) gold
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain moulded, and decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting overglaze in blue, several shades of green, dark yellow, pink, red, pale purple, and several shades of brown enamels, and gilding
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with cut corners, now discoloured brownish
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label, now discoloured brownish
Accession number: C.20.1-1961
Primary reference Number: 93555
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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