1592996633000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75708 1755194529206 1554472645000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75708 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75708 c6e4dc98-60e5-35f2-b93d-571a58a81c2c 9 reference agent-183778 adlib-agent-183778 8cca6001-71c9-30b6-8fde-ab414ba57bd7 Sudell, Henry reference term-37642 adlib-term-37642 8f36efe3-4fe1-3da2-9944-000db5687ad7 porcelain reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain reference term-117089 adlib-term-117089 70d59fbc-64f7-304e-a336-bf6d65a433a8 Louis C. G. Clarke greysh-turquoise, shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels overglaze 'beau bleu' reference term-113756 adlib-term-113756 79bc070a-703b-3bad-a71d-db930b9fccf0 ground colour reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration in greysh-turquoise, shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding Exterior reference term-120423 adlib-term-120423 49c03045-1936-389b-82bc-13662efdec88 ground laying Gilding reference term-26923 adlib-term-26923 8637c49a-c93f-3442-86fb-0fa05cb5345b tooling Applied Arts Soft-paste porcelain sauce boat, with a bleu nouveau ground, painted with an exotic bird at each end in enamels, and gilded. Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with a royal blue (beau bleu) ground, painting in greyish-turquoise, shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. Of elongated oval shape with a lip at each end, standing on a footring. In the middle of each side there is a double-entwined handle wth stylised leaves projecting at the top of the handle and leaves in relief at the junctions of the lower ends with the body. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The ground is beau bleu with at each end under the lip a pear-shaped reserve, framed by a wide and a narrow gilt band, and painted in polychrome with an exotic bird standing amid foliage, the Ortolan de Neige at one end and the Perruche de la Caroline at the other. The ground between the reserves is elaborately decorated with chased gold scrolls, stylised plant forms, and swags of flowers and foliage. There are two gilt bands round the foot with a reserved white band between, and a further gilt band a little higher up. There is a gilt band round the rim, sprays of flowers and foliage on the interior of the body at the junctions of the handles, lines of gilding down the sides of the handles and sprays of foliage down their backs. On the base, inscribed in blue enamel above the mark 'L'Ortolan,/de Neige.' and below the mark, 'Perruche/de la/Caroline.' C.63-1961 1 accession number C.63-1961 75708 priref 75708 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75708 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75708 on base incised 14 incised mark on the base painted in blue enamel interlaced L's with PP on the left factory mark on the base, on the right of the factory mark painted in blue enamel y painter's mark in script letters on base below factory mark painted in blue enamel LG gilder's mark on base above the mark painted in blue enamel L'Ortolan,/de Neige. inscription on base below the mark painted in blue enamel Peruche/de la/Caroline. inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 reference agent-149875 adlib-agent-149875 89f52d0e-b912-3dc9-8b2c-61d6aa011b16 Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1960 1960 1960-04-27 bequeathed 1792 1792 CE 1792 1792 1793 1 1793 CE 1793 before 1793 factory reference agent-161360 adlib-agent-161360 7b3ff8f7-d7ff-380d-8d45-22cbd06ada8e Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory uncertain gilder reference agent-77992 adlib-agent-77992 0bd3e138-a5c0-3d00-856b-06919e8325dd Le Guay, Etienne-Henry painter reference agent-162412 adlib-agent-162412 5a7e0f9a-61b6-3450-ad19-f46c0177ad94 Bouilliat, Edme-François after production reference agent-163219 adlib-agent-163219 a221c804-28ec-3ce4-b68b-e60d2a3e00c6 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de The earliest Sèvres ornithological services was made for Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735-1806) , the British ambassador to France in 1765-6. The form was derived from silver sauceboats. Saucière à deux becs appear in the factory inventory of 1756. This was probably one of twelve saucières et plats (the latter missing) included in a dinner and dessert service delivered to J. Lanos and Jean-Fréderic Perregaux of Paris acting for an Englishman, Sudell, possibly Henry Sudell of Ashley House, Box, Wiltshire. The Sudell coat-of-arms was incorporated into the decoration, of the service, but does not appear on this piece. Although the sale was recorded in the factory's records as 31 December 1792 the service does not appear to have been delivered before 7 May 1793 or possibly earlier 7 March 1793. The plate design for the service, no. 140 in the factory's Album of Plate Designs, is entitled 'Oiseaux d'apres la Collection de M Buffon, et le nom de l'oiseau inscrit dessous les pieces. livré 7 Mai 1793/[or 7 Mars 1793]'. For a detailed account of its components and manufacture, see Peters, 2005, vol. IV, p. 1003-5. reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-14265 adlib-term-14265 b9f6d73e-26ce-3588-a519-976c2cc93f7f Louis XVI reference term-113750 adlib-term-113750 9c94e435-9cde-38f2-b190-3a9ff2a77005 literal France France country Sèvres reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain Height cm 9.2 Length cm 23.4 reference media-45925 adlib-media-45925 eefa39da-b170-3280-8859-5adc8834e0a2 jpeg aa/aa23/C_63_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 507 width pixels 760 1616284793753 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/mid_C_63_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 334 width pixels 500 1616284793753 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/C_63_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 507 width pixels 760 1616284793753 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/preview_C_63_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 167 width pixels 250 1616284793753 1 image 0 media image reference media-45926 adlib-media-45926 d6952b2c-613d-3379-b7ef-95c615ea909f 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pixels 167 width pixels 250 1529203064000 1 image 11 media image reference term-90921 adlib-term-90921 743cd8b7-9f18-3c65-9283-a5a0c17e68c4 sauce boat Saucière à deux becs history note A member of the Sudell family, probably Henry Sudell of Ashley House, Box, Wiltshire; probably sold Christie's, London, 27 June 1889, Catalogue of an Old Sèvres Service, Oriental, Dresden & English Porcelain and Decorative Furniture, from Gatton Park, formerly the Property of the Rt Hon. Frederick John Lord Monson . . ., one of eight sauceboats lots 74-77, or from two later sales, Christie's, London, 17 July 1895, lot 118, two saucières; or 23 April 1913, lot 35, two saucières. 1 reference object-73644 adlib-object-73644 b8cfe907-0861-3b04-883c-9d6da5059505

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écuelle reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. p. 7, lots 62-88, Service of Old Sèvres Porcelain, Painted with birds in colours, from Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in borders of gros-bleu, with the arms of the Lancashire family of Sudell, for whom it was made in 1792 (sic); and other rich gilding by Vincent. Lots 74-77 were each a pair of two-handled sauceboats. 7 reference publication-8612 adlib-publication-8612 86c3f080-51b4-3fe4-b557-83947c02e74c Catalogue of an Old Sèvres Service, Oriental, Dresden, & English Porcelain and Decorative Furniture, from Gatton Park, formerly the Property of the Rt. Hon. Frederick John Lord Monson . . . Ref. p. 98, mention saucière à deux becs appearing in the factory's inventory of January 1756 98 reference publication-3134 adlib-publication-3134 3aca7c2c-770f-3903-8496-0510265bed08 Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Cf. vol. 1, p. 227, no. 341, Paris, and p. 304, no. 480, unspecified town, examples of silver sauceboats with two lips and central handles 227 reference publication-4661 adlib-publication-4661 b8923c39-7818-3322-8ab5-aa032060e58e Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver Ref. vol. IV, pp. 1003-05 for the service made for Sudell. This sauceboat is mentioned on p. 1005. See vol. I, iii for the decorator's mark 1003-05 reference publication-5542 adlib-publication-5542 2a50a06d-9569-3541-8bd6-d98d1f9c6081 Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century Ref. vol. III, pp. 1002-4 for Edme-François Bouilliat père, and pp. 1045-7, for Etienne-Henry Le Guay ainé père (1719/20-c. 1799, working at the factory 1742-3, 1748-9, and 1751-96. 1045-7 reference publication-2709 adlib-publication-2709 e4899c4a-b889-3004-9341-697b98920a9f The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Cf. vol. IV, 1778 (vol. XXVI), p. 320 illustrated pl. 497 for the Ortolan de Neige; vol. VI, 1779 (vol. xxviii), p. 2874, illustrated pl. 499 for the Perruche de la Caroline. 329 reference publication-4660 adlib-publication-4660 865143fe-4975-3817-b649-f99332890d6f Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Cf. p. 222, fig. 12, a similarly decorated sauceboat of 1758, one of a set of four. 222 reference publication-200001793 adlib-publication-200001793 aa4eb1e3-968e-3aca-80a1-4db3ffe49535 The Collections of Sir Alfred Beit: 2 Cf. pp. 146-7, a water jug and basin and an écuelle and stand with bird decoration reserved in a blue ground, made in 1780, in the Sackville Collection on loan to Knole, Kent. The birds were painted by Etienne Evans after plates in the 'Planches enluminées', (Paris 1767-83) accompanying the comte de Buffon's 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux', Paris, 1770-83. 146-7 reference publication-8407 adlib-publication-8407 c2ab7f09-de03-38d7-b05a-2d9deb284d12 Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces Cf. pp. 204-05, a serving dish (plat ovale) of 1793 from the Sudell service, which has the family's arms in one of the reserves on the border. The author provides information about the factory's records for the service 204-05 reference publication-8495 adlib-publication-8495 39d527d2-aa40-398e-b10b-eb9f3b02e036 A thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever. Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from a Private Collection reference term-9010 adlib-term-9010 ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6 Rococo animal reference term-106419 adlib-term-106419 6a020a7a-d710-3cb6-af17-8cd664abcf90 bird literal bird bird

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