IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93562 accession number: C.22 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting overglaze in blue, two shades of greyish-green, yellow, dark pink, red, purple, brown, grey and black (very little) enamels, and gilding. Ovoid body with gently curving spout and ear-shaped handle, the slightly domed cover surmounted by a knob in the shape of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk with two leaves. There are five strainer holes on the interior between spout and body, and on the cover, a ventilation hole beside the knob, and a suspension hole in the inner rim. The ground is bleu céleste with two heart-shaped reserves on the body and two kidney-shaped on the cover, framed by gold scrolls and floral sprays which project at the sides. The reserves are painted in polychrome with two exotic birds (two in each panel on the body and one in each panel on the cover), standing on the branches of low tree, with bushes and trees in the background. There is a single bird in flight on the lower part of the spout, which like the handle is left white. The flower knob is yellow with agreen centre. There are bands of gilding round the foot and the junction of the spout and body; dentilated bands of gilding round the rim of the pot and edge of the cover; and lines of gilding down the sides of the handle. The stem of the knob is gilded. object type: soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, reserves painted in enamels with birds, and gilding title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's, 20 February 1934, Catalogue of Chinese and Continental Porcelain...,p. 12, lot 70; acquired by Mallett & Sons from whom purchased by Louis Colville Gray Clarke in 1934, for £65. 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/93562 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds birds TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1761 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1761 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Aloncle, François-Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.8 CITATIONS -------- Chinese and Continental Porcelain, Decorative Objects and Furniture Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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