IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93560 accession number: C.21 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a turquoise (bleu céleste) ground, painting overglaze in blue, shades of green, yellow, pink, red, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. The flower vasee is in two parts, a stand for water and a plant holder. Both are of an elongated, shaped oval plan. The lower part of the holder is pierced with eight holes and fits into an aperture in the top of the stand. The sides slope upwards and outwards in the shape of a fan. The stand has a moulding round its base, almost vertical sides and shoulders pierced by four lobed panels. There is a suspension hole in the base of the stand. The bleu céleste ground of the flower holder has four narrow closed fan-shaped gilded panels between the reserves, each enclosing a central patera, and at the top and bottom a scrolled motif . There are four oval reserves on the holder and four rectangular reserves on the sides of the stand all painted in polychrome enamels. On the holder, one has a bouquet of mixed flowers, and the other two, flowers and fruit.The reserve on the front has a genre scene, including an old man, a young man and a woman, and a child around a table standing outside a cottage. The stand has four bleu céleste areas between the reserves each gilded with a diaper panel above a patera. Three reserves are decorated with floral sprays, and one with a barrel and a table standing in front of a stone wall with a landscape to the left. The openings are outlined by double gold lines. object type: Flower vase, of soft-paste porcelain decorated with a turquoise (bleu céleste) ground, reserves painted in enamels with flowers and a genre scene after Teniers, and gilding. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Edward Arnold Collection; sold at Christie's, 25th February 1932, Old French Furniture, Objects of Art and Porcelain being part of the collection of the late Edward Arnold Esq., lot 111; acquired by Mallett & Sons from whom purchased by Louis Colville Gray Clarke for £180 in 1932 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: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93560 PEOPLE ------------------- Arnold, Edward men woman child SUBJECTS ------------------- barrel table flower drinking cottage barrel table flower drinking cottage TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1761 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1761 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Micaud, Jacques-François maker: Xhrowet, Philippe maker: Teniers, David II maker: Le Bas, Jacques Philippe DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Art Treasures Exhibition, 1932 CITATIONS -------- Old French Furniture, Objects of Art and Porcelain being part of the collection of the late Edward Arnold Esq. Art Treasures Exhibition 1932 The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Reproduction et imitation de vieux tableaux flamands ou hollandais sur porcelaine de Sèvres (1756-1847) Catalogue of the Jones Collection, Part II Ceramics, etc Peasants on porcelain: Sèvres and the taste for Teniers The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, 11-17 June 2009 French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. 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