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Toilet Jar and Cover
Factory: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain jar and cover, painted underglaze in blue with, round the top and bottom of the jar, bands of trelliswork and lambrequins
Soft-paste porcelain of ivory tone, the jar thrown, the cover moulded, and painted underglaze in blue. The jar is cylindrical with slightly uneven sides, and recessed base. The depressed centre of the circular domed cover is moulded with radiating gadroons, and the flat, circular knob is also gadrooned. A flange on the underside fits inside the jar. Round the top and bottom of the jar there are narrow bands of dotted trelliswork interrupted by blue oval motifs enclosing a reserved flower head. Below the top border there is a repeating design of long and short lambrequin motifs, and above the bottom border, long and short lambrequins of different forms. The cover has a zig-zag line round the edge with smaller lambrequins of a different pattern radiating from it towards the centre
History note: The Dowager Viscountess Harcourt; sold Sotheby's, 16 November 1945, Catalogue of Fine Continental, English, and Chinese Porcelain, French and English Works of Art, Etc., p. 4, part of lot 20 (including C.37-1945).
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 16.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1945) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th Century, Early#
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa
1700
CE
-
1715
CE
The cover may not be that originally supplied with the jar, and the knob appears to be a replacement. Jars of this form are usually described as either toilet jars or tobacco jars
Decoration
composed of
underglaze cobalt-blue
Jar
Diameter 10.6 cm
Cover
Diameter 11.2 cm
Both Parts
glassy type
Soft-paste porcelain
Lead-glaze
Accession number: EC.36 & A-1945
Primary reference Number: 40248
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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