Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted underglaze with a Chinese garden scene in bright blue.
Soft-paste porcelain painted underglaze in bright blue. The glaze is very pale greenish-blue. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a footring. There is a faint incised circle underglaze on the base. The front is painted with a Chinese figure wearing a hat, standing beside a fence and plants with a butterfly (?) overhead. To the left of the figure a goose-like bird is perching on a table beside a tree. In the foreground on the edge of the saucer there is a stylised plant between tufts of grass.
Notes
History note: Dr Bernard Watney; sold Phillips, Bond Street, London, 4 March, 1998, Good European Ceramics and Glass, lot 314
Legal notes
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1998-04-27)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Note
The Vauxhall factory was founded c. 1753 by John Sanders and Nicholas Crisp, the latter being the financial backer. Sanders died in 1758 and was succeeded by his son, William. Crisp was declared bankrupt in 1763 and this led to the closure of the factory. It made soft-paste porcelain, mainly teawares decorated underglaze in blue Chinese-style patterns.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Glaze
composed of
glaze
( greenish-blue)
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Whole, Minimum
Height 1.6 cm
Whole, Maximum
Height 1.8 cm
Materials used in production
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Soft paste porcelain painted underglaze in bright blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: circular paper with grey circle enclosing BMW joined for Bernard M. Watney
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.9-1998
Primary reference Number: 28600
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 6 March 2018
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
