Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Royal Berlin Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hard-paste porcelain decorated with a yellow ground, painting in polychrome enamels and gilding. In the middle a bird perching on a rock. The base is inscribed ‘Gelinote male,/des Pyrénées’ in black enamel
Hard-paste porcelain decorated with yellow ground colour, pale green, yellow, red, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. Circular with sloping sides, and recessed base. Decorated in the centre with a bird standing on a small rock surrounded by leaves and small plants, and with a taller plant behind it. The base is painted in black enamel with the name of the bird, 'Gelinote male,/des Pyrénées'.
Legal notes
Given by Dame Anne Warburton
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 12.8 cm
Height: 3 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2010-06-07)
by
Warburton, Anne, Dame
Dating
18th Century, Late
Frederick I
Frederick William II
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale green, yellow, red, purple, brown, and black)
ground colour
( yellow)
gold
Materials used in production
feldspathic
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain decorated with overglaze yellow ground colour, pale green, yellow, red, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: sceptre
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted underglaze in blue
- Type: Factory mark
Inscription present: small e over the a in male
- Text: Gelinote male,/des Pyrénées.
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in black enamel
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: remains of a rectangular paper label
- Location: On base
- Type: Label
Inscription present: indistinct
- Text: 21.
- Location: On base stuck over the remains of rectangular label
- Method of creation: Hand written in blue-black ink
- Type: Label
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.124-2010
Primary reference Number: 177309
Entry form number: 1038
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 19 September 2012
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
