IDENTIFIERS
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id:	179247
accession number:	C.176-2010

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain moulded. glazed, painted in blue, four shades of green, yellow, dark puce, and purple enamels and gilded. Approximately oval in plan with undulating sides, notched at each end and having a depression on each side to facilitate handling. The interior sides are moulded in relief with four long leaves. On the base there are four patch marks, two at each end.

In the centre, is a basket filled to overflowing with flowers, including pansies, roses and peonies. On each side of the base, between the moulded leaves, there are two curving sprays of flowers and foliage, growing from the edge of the basin towards the centre, and then curving in opposite directions along the sides. There is an ant at the upper right side of the basin, and a ladybird (?) on the upper left side, covering blemishes in the glaze. The moulded foliage is outlined in gold. At the handle ends there are gold scroll motifs and there is a band of gilding round the rim.
object type: soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels
title:	basin

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Wilfred Ariel Evill by whom bequeathed in 1963 subject to a life interest to Miss Honor E. Frost, who lent it to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1963, and died in 2010


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Wilfred A. Evill, 1963

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/179247

PEOPLE
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Evill, Wilfrid Ariel

SUBJECTS
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flower
flower



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, four shades of green, yellow, dark puce, and purple enamelsen, and gilded
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1752
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1752
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	Louis XV

CREATORS
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maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 2¾

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 35.5

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 14

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 26.7

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 10½



CITATIONS
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The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres
Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres
La Porcelaine de Vincennes
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