Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Miniature dejeuner comprising a tray, cup and saucer, and sugar basin and cover
Maker(s)
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Noël, Guillaume
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain, partly moulded, and partly thrown, decorated overglaze with a rose marbré overglaze ground, painting in blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, and purple enamels, and gilding. The shallow oval tray (C.177.1) has lobed ends and wavy sides with an indentation in the middle and stands on a footring. The rounded cup (C.177.2) has a scrolled handle. The saucer (C.177.2A) has shallow curved sides and stands on a footring. The sugar bowl (C.177.3) has almost straight sides which curve inwards to the footring and a slightly domed cover (C.177.3A) with a knob in the form of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk with two leaves. There are suspension holes in the footrings of the tray and saucer.
The tray is decorated with rose border with blue and gold striations, and narrow gold and blue lines on the outer and inner edges, the latter scalloped. The white flat area is decorated with four floral sprays of different sizes. There is a gold band round the rim, dentilated on the exterior. The cup has a similar ground and one truncated heart-shaped reserve, containing an arrangement of flowers. There is a dentilated band round the rim, a plain band round the footring, and gold lines on the edges of the handle. The saucer has a similar border and a bouquet of flowers in the centre. The sugar bowl has two truncated heart-shaped reserves with a scalloped gold line round the edge containing floral sprays, and the cover has two kidney-shaped reserves similarly edged and painted with a smaller floral sray. There are gold bands round the rim, footring, and edge of the cover, and the knob, stalk, and leaves are gilded.
Notes
History note: Wilfred Ariel Evill by whom bequeathed in 1963 with a life interest to Miss Honor E. Frost who lent it to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1963, and died in 2010
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Wilfred A. Evill, 1963
Rose marbré grounds were made between 1760 and 1763. For the technique, see Eriksen, Brunet or Savill in Documentation.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, and purple)
ground colour
( rose enamel)
gold
Cup
Diameter 5.6 cm
Diameter 2¼ in
Height 4.3 cm
Height 1 3/4 in
Width 7.2 cm
Width 2 13/16 in
Sugar Basin
Diameter 5.7 cm
Diameter 5.8 cm
Diameter 2 3/16 in
Diameter 2¼ in
Height 6.2 cm
Height 2 7/16 in
Saucer
Diameter 9.6 cm
Diameter 3 3/4 in
Height 2.2 cm
Height 7/8 in
Tray
Height 1.6 cm
Height 5/8 in
Length 17.6 cm
Length 6 15/16 in
Width 13.5 cm
Width 5 3.8 in
Materials used in production
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: interlaced Ls enclosing i
- Location: On base of each piece
- Method of creation: Painted in blue enamel
- Type: Factory mark
- Location: Above the factory mark
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Painter's mark
- Text: gp partly obsucred by the suspension hole
- Location: On base of tray
- Method of creation: Incised underglaze
- Type: Incised mark
- Text: 18o
- Location: On base of cup
- Method of creation: Incised underglaze
- Type: Incised mark
- Text: 3
- Location: On base of saucer
- Method of creation: Incised underglaze
- Type: Incised mark
- Text: a reversed S and an S perhaps forming a wide V
- Location: On base of sugar bowl
- Method of creation: Incised underglaze
- Type: Incised mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.177.1-3-2010
Primary reference Number: 179248
Old object number: Loan 15-1963
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
