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Plateau à baguettes
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with a bleu nouveau ground, a reserve painted in enamels with a scene of an altar dedicated to Hymen, and gilding
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu nouveau ground, painting in blue, pale shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale and dark brown, and grey enamels, and gilding. Of four-lobed oval shape, the rim moulded as a series of looped scrolls, the two end ones rising to form handles decorated with bows of ribbon. The inner edges of the lobes are scalloped and fluted. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The bleu nouveau ground is overlaid by garlands of flowers and and of leaves and berries, linked by scrolls in tooled gilding. The oval quatrefoil reserve in the centre is edged with a wide band of gilding tooled with flowerheads, and painted with a scene depicting an altar to Hymen beneath a tree. The altar is in the form of a fluted pink marble column on which stands a basket of flowers containing a flaming heart. To the right of the altar are two doves standing on an overturned urn, a two garlands of pink roses, and a bow and quiver. To the left is a torch, and a shield bearing a heart pierced by an arrow. Another bow and a quiver are suspended from the tree. In the background there is a flowering bush, and distant trees. The looped scrolls on the edge and the bows are white with gilded edges.
History note: Acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, (1881-1960) Cambridge; bequeathed by him
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Length: 38.1 cm
Width: 26 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1765
CE
-
Circa
1775
CE
Bleu nouveau grounds were introduced in 1763 and continued until 1771, although from 1768 they begn to be replaced by beau bleu.
This form is believed to be the tray described as plateau à baguettes or baguettes à rubans in the factory's sales records and inventories in the 1760s. The term means 'piped' or moulded, and probably refers to the edging on the rim which resembles the piped edges on cushions or upholstery. It was used with teasets.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, pale shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale and dark brown, and grey enamels)
gold
Over Handles
Height 5.4 cm
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a blue nouveau ground, painting in blue, pale shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale and dark brown, and grey enamels enamels, and gilding.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: interlaced L's
Inscription present: in script
Inscription present: in script
Inscription present: the second seven has been alterred
Accession number: C.44-1961
Primary reference Number: 93590
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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