IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93592 accession number: C.47-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, mauve, red, reddish-brown, and pale brown enamels, and gilding The glaze on the interior has turquoise speckles here and there, and a few black ones in the bottom. The jug stands on a low, circular foot. The ovoid body contracts at the neck and then rises and flares out slightly to form a wavy-edged lip at the front. The handle springs from the rim and rises up slightly before curving outwards and downwards to meet the body at a point just above its junction with the foot. There is a band of white beading at the junction of the foot and body; stiff leaves in relief forming a calyx round the lower part of the body; and two husks and a cord in relief down the back of the handle. The ground is bleu céleste, interrupted above and below the widest point by two reserved white bands between narrow gilt lines, painted with sprays of polychrome flowers separated by two gold husks. The wide bleu céleste zone between them is decorated with gold rinceaux between which are two small and one large oval medallions, each painted en grisaille on a reddish-brown ground to resemble brown and white sardonyx cameos. The small medallions each contain a profile head: a Roman soldier and a young woman. The larger medallion has a scene with two Roman soldiers, the one on the right seated, probably Cincinnatus, and the one on the left standing. On the underside of the spout there is a circular reserve painted in polychrome with a wreath made up of two branches of different trees (? laurel and olive) tied with a bow at the bottom. At the top the branches meet on either side of a gold Imperial crown. Within the wreath is an E made up of flowers in monogram with II in gold, for Ekaterina II. The ground on either side is decorated with gold rinceaux. There is a gold band round the foot and a dentilated band and close-set strokes of different lengths round the lip. The leaves and husks in relief are gold and there are gold lines down the sides of the handles. object type: soft-paste porcelain jug, with bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels with medallions containing profile heads and a wreath enclosing EII, and gilded. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Empress Catherine II; Prince Potempkin; Tauride Palace; Empress Catherine II, Winter Palace, St Petersburg. Mallett & Son, from whom purchased in 1934 for £110 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, 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/93592 PEOPLE ------------------- Empress Catherine II of Russia Cincinnatus SUBJECTS ------------------- wreath crown soldier woman head laurel olive wreath crown soldier woman head laurel olive TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, mauve, red, reddish-brown, and pale brown enamels, and gilding with tooled details moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1779 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Le Guay, Etienne-Henry DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.9 CITATIONS -------- The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century Musée de l’Ermitage, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, Catalogue de la Collection La Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sèvres Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle European Ceramic Art Sèvres des Origines à nos Jours Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 Königliches Porzellan aus Frankreich, Sammlerstücke und Service der Manufaktur Vincennes/Sèvres The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Treasures of France from the Sun King to the Belle Epoque Splendeur de la peinture sur porcelaine au XVIIIe siècle, Charles Nicolas Dodin et la Manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_47_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 547 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_47_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 695 pixels width: 500 pixels 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