IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 28600 accession number: C.9-1998 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 6 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted underglaze with a Chinese garden scene in bright blue. title: saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Bernard Watney; sold Phillips, Bond Street, London, 4 March, 1998, Good European Ceramics and Glass, lot 314 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28600 PEOPLE ------------------- figure SUBJECTS ------------------- butterfly plants fence butterfly plants fence TECHNIQUES ---------- soft paste porcelain painted underglaze in bright blue moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory CITATIONS -------- Vauxhall 'Porcelaine Ware': A Note The Vauxhall China Works, 1751-1764 Recent Excavations on London Porcelain Sites; Vauxhall and Limehouse British Blue and White Porcelain Saucers 1745-1795. A Guide to Pattern Identification ---