IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93574 accession number: C.37B-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in greyish-blue, several shades of green, yellow, pale purple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding. Circular with deep, curved sides, the rim divided by indentations into eight segments. There is a suspension hole in the footring.The dish has a bleu céleste ground with a central, circular reserve framed by an inner band of gilding tooled with scrolling leaves, and an outer garland of large husks. The reserve is painted in polychrome with a duck standing on the right of a tree in a landscape with a pond or river on the right. Its name 'Canard de perie' is inscribed in black enamel on the base. There is a band of gilding round the rim, dentilated on the exterior. object type: soft-paste porcelain dish, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, a reserve painted in enamels, with a bird and a tree in landscape (Canard de perie), and gilding title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Collection of Madame Dhainaut; sold Sotheby's 10 December 1936, Catalogue of a Very Choice Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Madame Dhainaut of Paris, lot 49; Mallett & Son, 40 New Bond Street, London, Exhibition (1937) of Old English Furniture Needlework, Silver, Old Chinese, Sèvres and English Porcelains and Objects of Art, p. 38, part of no. 274, ill. opposite p. 36 (right); Louis C.G. Clarke, MA (1881-1960) Cambridge, by whom bequeathed 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/93574 PEOPLE ------------------- Dhainaut, Madame SUBJECTS ------------------- duck trees duck trees TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in greyish-blue, several shades of green, yellow, pale purple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding with tooled details. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Evans, Etienne maker: Edwards, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 21.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition (1937) of Old English Furniture Needlework, Silver, Old Chinese, Sèvres and English Porcelains and Objects of Art CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of a Very Choice Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Madame Dhainaut of Paris Exhibition (1937) of Old English Furniture Needlework, Silver, Old Chinese, Sèvres and English Porcelains and Objects of Art Notes on the Historic Chérémèteff Collection of old Turquoise Sèvres Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain A Natural History Birds The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_37B_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 660 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_37B_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 576 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_37B_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 660 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_37B_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 288 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_37B_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 700 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_37B_1961.jpg height: 543 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_37B_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 700 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_37B_1961.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/908/large_C_37B_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/908/mid_C_37B_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.37B-1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/908/preview_C_37B_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/908/C_37B_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5120 pixels width: 3413 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/904/large_C_37B_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/904/mid_C_37B_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.37B-1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/904/preview_C_37B_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/904/C_37B_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5120 pixels width: 3413 pixels