IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140397 accession number: EC.16 & A-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in pale blue (a little) bright green, dark green, yellow, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels and gilt. The cup has curved sides and stands on a footring. The circular saucer has shallow curved sides and stands on a footring. The exteror of the cup is decorated with a continuous landscape in which there is a stockade beside a tent, a church and distant hills. On one side there are three mounted soldiers fighting, two brandishing swords, and one a pistol. To their right, two smaler horsemen and two footmen are show moving into the distance. The saucer is decorated with a back view of a soldier mounted on horseback, with his shield slung across his back, who has stopped to talk to a girl seated on the ground to the right. On either side there are stunted trees and buildings. A gold band encircles the rims of both pieces. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140397 PEOPLE ------------------- soldier woman SUBJECTS ------------------- tent horse fighting tent horse fighting TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted in pale blue (a little) bright green, dark green, yellow, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels and gilt glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Le Nove Porcelain Factory CITATIONS -------- L'arte della porcellane in Italia: Il Veneto e la Toscano ---