IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118388 accession number: C.15 & A-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with dark blue ground colour, painting in pale blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, brown, and black enamels, and gilding. Cylindrical cup with angular handle. Circular saucer with deep sloping sides and flat central area. The cup has a wide dark blue band round the top decorated with a gilt trellis pattern, in hich are reserved an approximately rectangular reserve painted with black long-tailed bird perching on a branch in a landscape, and two smaller circular reserves, one painted with a butterfly, and the other with a beetle. There are bands of gilding round the reserves, the base, above and below the dark blue ground, and down the sides of the handle. The base is painted in black, 'carouge de l'isle St/thomas.' (the t of St raised). The centre of the saucer is painted with a large black bird with a yellow beak standing on the ground amidst plants and a small tree. The sides are decorated en suite with the cup, with three wide oval reserves in which are a butterfly, a ladybird, and another insect. There are bands of gilding round the reserves, and the rim. The back is painted in black, 'merle de france mâle' object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with dark blue border, reserves painted in polychrome with a bird in a landscape, a butterly and an insect, and gilding. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118388 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird butterfly insect bird butterfly insect TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain with an overglaze dark blue ground, painting in pale blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, brown, and black enamels, and gilding glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1787 - 1792 creation date earliest: 1787 creation date latest: 1792 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Tournai Porcelain Factory CITATIONS -------- Highly Important French and English Furniture . . . and A Collection of Fine Continental Porcelain the Property of David Stalder, Esq. French Porcelain of the 18th Century Les porcelaines de Tournai du Musée de Mariemont Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection Fine European Ceramics & Glass La table du prince, Le service d'Orléans en porcelaine de Tournai Le service d'Orléans, grandeur et misère de la manufacture de Tournai Collection Européenne, Porcelaine de Tournai et Important Mobilier du XVIIIe Siècle European Ceramics and Glass including the Property of a Collector ---