1592996729000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-82570 1755194528118 1609849852000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-82570 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82570 831e9a91-8b26-37ee-9fd7-9bf092bc2aae 7 reference agent-161362 adlib-agent-161362 d1288bdc-73de-34c6-86d1-0acf56e103d7 Gould, Cecil reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain blue, pale green, greyish-green, yellow, brownish-orange, dark pink, and mauve reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration in blue, pale green, greyish-green, yellow, brownish-orange, dark pink, and mauve 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 Length cm 13.5 Foot reference term-115 adlib-term-115 94d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8 Nature Applied Arts Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with bouquets of flowers and gilded Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with painting in blue, pale green, greyish-green, yellow, brownish-orange, dark pink, and mauve enamels, and gilding. The glaze is slightly speckled inside and outside. The vase stands on a D-shaped solid base. The back of the bowl is almost flat with a depression on either side of the centre. The front is curved, and divided into two lobes, separated by stylised palms in relief which curve below each lobe and rise to form small handles at each end. The wavy upper edge is divided and folded back at each end. Each of the lobes is painted with a bouquet of flowers. The relief leaves are touched with blue and gold; the upper edge is feathered in blue, and there are gold bands round the upper edge, and round the edge of the base. A pair with C.4B-1955. C.4A-1955 1 accession number C.4A-1955 82570 priref 82570 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82570 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82570 the dots are one above the other on base painted in blue enamel onto the unglazed body interlaced, foliate Ls with a group of three dots above, three in the centre and one below mark an illegible inscription in which some letters are readable on base hand-written, probably in ink, appearing pale brown inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund reference agent-161362 adlib-agent-161362 d1288bdc-73de-34c6-86d1-0acf56e103d7 Gould, Cecil 1955 1955 1955-05-26 bought Entry date: 1955-05-26 1751 1751 CE 1751 circa 1751 1752 Perhaps c.1750-1, see documentation Eriksen and Bellaigue, 1987 1 1752 CE 1752 1752 factory reference agent-140732 adlib-agent-140732 1cccf6bc-5e51-3e11-a849-d05785821974 Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory This open bowl-like flower vase, is likely to have been the form referred to in the Vincennes factory's records as a 'cuvette à fleurs' or a 'pot à fleur'. With its pair, C.4B-1955, it may have formed part of a garniture of three vases, with a larger one in the centre. In the absence of other wide bowl-like Vincennes flower vases during the early 1750s, Eriksen and Bellaigue (see Documentation 1987) identified this form as probably corresponding to a garniture of vases, listed twice, once as 'vases à fleurs' and again as 'cuvettes à fleurs' in the probate inventory of Jean-Henry-Louis Orry de Fulvy (1703-51), which was begun on 26 May 1751, and is now in the Archives Nationales. In the inventory of the factory's stock taken of 1 October 1752 among the glazed wares there were five chimney garnitures in the form of bowls for flowers each defective costing 100 livres and amounting to 500 livres, which were still unsold in the inventory of 1 April 1753. (MNS I 7,p. 23) The report of the biscuit firing of 4 November 1752 included under moulded ware, one 'cuvette a fleur' of the first size and two of the second size which seems likely to have been another garniture of this type. (Ledger in the Institut de France, MS 5673, p. 3. ) It seems plausible to imagine that the large central vase resembled the one filled with an arrangement of porcelain flowers on metal stems acquired by the Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres in 1983 (MNC 25058). The museum already owned a pair of matching smaller bowls. (MNC 24427.1, 2), similar to the Fitzwilliam’s but having pink edges, which suggests that they may have been decorated before July 1751 when the factory's chemist, Jean Helot, introduced a blue enamel. The Fitzwilliam's examples were probably made between that date and the introduction of the date lettering system in 1753. Another of the smaller size bowls with pink edges is in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (71.147), and another with blue edges was sold at Christies, New York, on 24 October 2012, lot 21. 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vase reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 234, no. 55, illustrated p. 235. Eriksen and Bellaigue suggest a date of c. 1750-1. Nothing resembling them was listed in the 1752 stock list. 234-5 reference publication-2708 adlib-publication-2708 8bd0fe01-f1e7-391a-9790-39dfbcf6c941 Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 reference publication-3650 adlib-publication-3650 a6c9b778-9484-30c5-8834-65c60bb2e6ba Important Continental Porcelain and Pottery reference publication-3664 adlib-publication-3664 f25efea3-7517-3d67-8795-3fed23e56bde Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 29th-30th March 1971 Cf. p. 76, nos. 155-6, further examples, a pair in the Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres (MNC 24427 1 and 2).The Fitzwilliam's pair are mentioned, p. 75. See also p. 75, no. 154, a larger vase with porcelain flower arrangement then in a private collection, since 1983 also at Sèvres (MNC 25058). pp. 75-6 reference publication-3134 adlib-publication-3134 3aca7c2c-770f-3903-8496-0510265bed08 Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Cf. p. 132, fig. 27, the pair at Sèvres which have pink edges. Fitzwilliam's example mentioned in text. p. 132 reference publication-3651 adlib-publication-3651 b6570ad2-e4e9-30b7-8f3d-5e91ee060031 Sèvres des Origines à nos Jours Cf. p. 140, no. 188, the large vase with porcelain flower arrangement, acquired in 1983 (MNC 25058). 140 reference publication-6523 adlib-publication-6523 1dbb2bc1-4f20-3d00-8d79-cc9283f78f41 Sèvres, Musée national de Céramiques, Nouvelles Acquisitions 1979-1989 Cf. p. 27, colour pl. and p. 146, no. 101, the two at Sèvres with the larger central bowl (MNC 25058). These have different marks from the Fitzwilliam's pair, the large bowl has double L; the smaller two ornamented double L with central dot. The authors date them c. 1750-1. They have pink edges. p. 146 reference publication-3638 adlib-publication-3638 9fdd0b21-49ec-37e9-9467-969617c4e941 La Porcelaine de Vincennes Cf. pp. 106, lot 396, illustrated p. 107, a pair with bleu céleste grounds, and flowers on the lobes, with date letter A for 1753-4 and incised Bu on both. Estimate £30-40,000. The Fitzwilliam's pair are mentioned 106-7 reference publication-2645 adlib-publication-2645 b1b69b1c-707f-3c05-a267-31713b4eb4c0 British and Continental Ceramics Cf. p. 27, lot 21, a bowl with blue edge and flowers, marked with interlacing Ls between and enclosing dots, dated c. 1750-3. W. 25 cm. Estimated £4-5,300. From the collection of Baron Hottinguer; previously sold Christie's Paris, 2-3 December 2003, lot 110. 27 reference publication-7524 adlib-publication-7524 9aae2908-1105-3fa5-8365-0c981a52dccf Treasures of France from the Sun King to the Belle Epoque reference term-9010 adlib-term-9010 ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6 Rococo plant reference term-107622 adlib-term-107622 523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0 flowers literal flowers flowers

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