IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71755 accession number: C.13.2 & A & B-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, each piece moulded, decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, brownish orange, dark pink, mauve, purple, and grey enamels and gilding. The stand is oval with rim notched to create two long and two short lobes. The basin is oval with deep sloping sides and a domed cover with a handle formed by two looped and interlaced branches with moulded leaves at the junction of the ends with the cover. The basin and stand each has a hole for suspension in the footring. The bowl is decorated with two oval reserves and the cover and stand with two tri-lobate reserves, framed by gold palms, flowers and foliage. Each reserve is painted in polychrome enamels with two flying birds, one of each pair carrying a branch in its claws, except in one reserve on the basin, and ne on the stand in which one carries it in its beak. The stand has a plain band of gilding round the edge of the base and a dentilated band round the rim. The bowl has a plain band of gilding round the base and a dentilated band round the rim. The cover has a dentilated band of gilding round the outer edge and touches of gilding on the handle. The basin and stand has a suspension hole in the footrim. object type: soft-paste porcelain sugar basin, cover and stand, decorated with underglaze blue ground, reserves painted in enamels with flowers, foliage and birds, and gilding. title: sugar bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Louis C.G. Clarke (2 May 1881-13 December 1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71755 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds palm flowers foliage birds palm flowers foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, each piece moulded, decorated with underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, brownish orange, dark pink, mauve, purple, and grey enamels and gilding. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Le porcellane francesi a Palazzo Pitti Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres La Porcelaine de Vincennes French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. 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