IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93588 accession number: C.42-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with green ground colour, painting in blue, several shades of green, brownish-yellow, dark pink, pale purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. Circular, with shaped rim of six large arcs alternating with six small, gently sloping border and shallow well. There is a hole for suspension in the footring, which has been broken away at this point. The white centre is painted in polychrome with two birds; one stands on the ground with its left leg raised and its head turned sharply to the left; behind it to the left is a sprouting tree stump, on a branch of which is perched a second bird which looks downwards, its wings spread behind it. In the foreground to the left there is a plant with blue daisy-like flowers and in the background to the right, hazy trees. The rim has an apple green ground decorated in gold with oeil-de-perdrix. There is a gold band round the inner edge of the rim and a dentilated band round the outer edge. object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate, painted in enamels with birds, flowers and trees, and gilded. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Christie's, 20th February 1934, Catalogue of Chinese and Continental Porcelain...The Property of a Gentleman, lot 68. Purchased in 1934 for £25 by Louis C.G. Clarke, Cambridge 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/93588 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird daisy bird daisy TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with green ground colour, painting in blue, several shades of green, brownish-yellow, dark pink, pale purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1769 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1769 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Chappuis, Antoine-Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 CITATIONS -------- Chinese and Continental Porcelain, Decorative Objects and Furniture British and Continental Ceramics Musée Nissim de Camondo, Catalogue des Collections The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Collection Charles-Otto Zieseniss A thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever. 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