1592996782000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-93553 1755194528707 1554815175000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-93553 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93553 dcb63eae-43d3-33bc-a92a-3d9695066b58 7 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 bleu celeste reference term-113756 adlib-term-113756 79bc070a-703b-3bad-a71d-db930b9fccf0 ground colour blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown 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 bleu céleste reference term-120423 adlib-term-120423 49c03045-1936-389b-82bc-13662efdec88 ground laying in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brownenamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding presumed lead-glaze reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Interior And Sides reference term-115 adlib-term-115 94d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8 Nature Applied Arts soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels, and gilding: two birds carrying branches. Soft-paste porcelain decorated with bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding. Square with low, sloping sides, slightly warped in firing. The unglazed base is pinkish in places, and is speckled in black all over. It has a suspension hole near the left edge (when front is to viewer). The central area is painted in polychrome with two birds carrying branches in their claws. The sides are bleu céleste with a band of gilt flowers and foliage at their junction with the base, and a band of dentilated gilding round the upper edge. C.18-1961 1 accession number C.18-1961 93553 priref 93553 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93553 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93553 interlaced L's enclosing G with a dot each side of the top of the Ls and a dot in the centre below on base painted in blue enamel factory mark a dagger looking like a cross on base painted in blue enamel l with sweeping diagonal line (bottom left to top right) through it painter's mark 6c or bc on base incised 6c mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum L.C.G. Clarke Bequst, 1960 reference agent-149875 adlib-agent-149875 89f52d0e-b912-3dc9-8b2c-61d6aa011b16 Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1961 1961 1961-04-27 bequeathed Entry date: 1961-04-27 1760 CE 1760 The tray bears the date letter G once thought to stand for 1759, or 1759-60, but since 2014, has been revised to 1760. 1760 factory reference agent-161360 adlib-agent-161360 7b3ff8f7-d7ff-380d-8d45-22cbd06ada8e Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory probably painter reference agent-42675 adlib-agent-42675 804a9ad0-e699-3b78-b203-384e376a5d1e Evans, Etienne Etienne Evans (b. c. 1723) , who worked at the factory from 1752-1806, had formerly been a fan painter. He became a specialist in bird-painting. The plateau carré with plain sides was in production by 1753. This is the third and smallest size which from 1755 was usually supplied as part of a dejeuner carré with a cup and saucer, or a cup only. Overglaze bleu céleste grounds were introduced in 1753. reference term-106496 adlib-term-106496 bd563695-7339-3178-a8c4-251899070993 18th Century, Mid reference term-15538 adlib-term-15538 e4001da7-ed48-3271-a6fb-c7f54095a1ad Louis XV reference term-113750 adlib-term-113750 9c94e435-9cde-38f2-b190-3a9ff2a77005 literal France France country literal Île de France Île de France region Sèvres reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain Height cm 1.9 Width cm 10.6 reference media-67071 adlib-media-67071 3df2b787-2a21-360c-b8a5-e5a751fa54fc jpeg aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 612 width pixels 760 1616250144727 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/mid_C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 403 width pixels 500 1616250144727 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 612 width pixels 760 1616250144727 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/preview_C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 201 width pixels 250 1616250144727 1 image 0 media image reference media-67072 adlib-media-67072 9cb56c1e-f199-354c-a4ef-6fd3db5ab188 jpeg aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 638 1616268835911 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/mid_C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 596 width pixels 500 1616268835911 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 638 1616268835911 1 image jpeg aa/aa23/preview_C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 298 width pixels 250 1616268835911 1 image 1 media image reference media-2735367885 portfolio portfolio-media-2735367885 664a3576-67b8-3d0f-937d-3fe04cbb2c11 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/large_C_18_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 1536 width pixels 1024 1529202561000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/mid_C_18_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 750 width pixels 500 1529202561000 1 image C.18-1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif 1529202561000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/preview_C_18_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 250 1529202561000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/C_18_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 5120 width pixels 3413 1529202561000 1 image 2 <primary>1</primary> <type>main title</type> <value>Tray decorated with two birds, Sevres Factory (base)</value> media image reference media-3455627389 portfolio portfolio-media-3455627389 0ddfce41-6dcb-3707-9e6b-f7e55b25beb9 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/562/large_C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 683 width pixels 1024 1529202558000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/562/mid_C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 333 width pixels 500 1529202558000 1 image C.18-1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif 1529202558000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/562/preview_C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 167 width pixels 250 1529202558000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/562/C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 3413 width pixels 5120 1529202558000 1 image 3 <primary>1</primary> <type>main title</type> <value>Tray decorated with two birds, Sevres Factory</value> media image reference term-89196 adlib-term-89196 daa8a4b5-42b3-3b6b-bbb3-b5e1703fc2c4 tray factory name plateau carré history note Acquired by Louis C.G. Clarke before October 1948 when included in an inventory of his collection at Leckhampton, Cambridge; bequeathed by him, 1960. 1 similar incised mark reference object-93570 adlib-object-93570 5d8ca2d9-7433-33aa-86a5-60b2256d4a34 1 reference 1 term-107532 adlib-term-107532 f00fbddb-30d4-39ff-bcf3-a87fbac64158 cup and saucer cup and saucer 1 similar incised mark reference object-93548 adlib-object-93548 e86aed63-abd7-38c9-bcf5-b6cd68551c15 1 reference 1 term-89196 adlib-term-89196 daa8a4b5-42b3-3b6b-bbb3-b5e1703fc2c4 tray tray 1 similar incised mark reference object-93555 adlib-object-93555 0845aded-281d-3d89-a75c-d1fc6056fe38 1 reference 1 term-89196 adlib-term-89196 daa8a4b5-42b3-3b6b-bbb3-b5e1703fc2c4 tray tray reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. p. 66 for the plateau carré form. Cf. nos. 126, 127, 128 66 reference publication-3134 adlib-publication-3134 3aca7c2c-770f-3903-8496-0510265bed08 Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Ref. p. 585 for the plateau carré form, sizes, date of introduction, sales records, and for its use with a cup and saucer or cup as a dejeuner carré. 585-6 reference publication-2709 adlib-publication-2709 e4899c4a-b889-3004-9341-697b98920a9f The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Ref. p. 325, for biography and work of the painter Etienne Evans. Cf. the incised mark 6c (or bu) which occurs on a tray of 1758, p. 102, no. 35, and another of 1759, p. 112, no. 38. Eriksen notes its occurences on pieces from the Bedford Service, 1763 , and the Starhemberg service, 1766. 325, 102, 11 reference publication-3637 adlib-publication-3637 5eb27a85-d31c-3b6f-b09e-8e02f712649c The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain reference term-9010 adlib-term-9010 ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6 Rococo animal reference term-25536 adlib-term-25536 dc50e6b9-2ea9-373f-b7ab-4ee201ca0256 birds literal birds birds reference term-89196 adlib-term-89196 daa8a4b5-42b3-3b6b-bbb3-b5e1703fc2c4 tray tray soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated overglaze with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding except for base reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing <value>Plateau carré</value> object OBJECT