IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72474 accession number: C.17 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 3 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale turquoise and mid-blue pointillé ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, pale purple, brown, grey and dark grey enamels, and gilding. Cylindrical cup with ear-shaped handle. Circular saucer with flat central area and sloping sides. Both pieces have a suspension hole in the footring. Both pieces have a pale turquoise ground with regularly spaced white circles surrounded by blue dots. On the front of the cup there is acircular reserve framed by a gold band tooled with trellis, and painted in polychrome with a military trophy comprising a cornet bound by a pink cord with a tassel, a helmet, fasces, an axe, and spray of laurel (?). On the opposite side, running under the handle is a long, gold-edged rectangular reserve painted with polychrome flowers and foliage. There are bands of gilding round the foot and rim and and lines of gilding down the sides of the handle. The saucer has a circular central reserve, framed by a gold band and painted in polychrome with a posy of flowers. On the sides there are two long rectangular panels, framed by gold bands and painted in polychrome with floral sprays, alternating with two elongated oval panels, framed by gold bands faintly tooled with trellis. One contains a musical trophy comprising a lyre, a sheet of music, an arrow, and a houlette tied with a pink bow, and foliage; the other, a ewer, flaming torch, halberd, staff with a finial in the form of Ceres (?) holding a sheaf of corn and a sickle.The edge is encircled by a gold and. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, with a turquoise and mid-blue pointillé ground, painted in enamels, and gilded, with military and musical trophies, and floral sprays in reserves. title: cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before testator, Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D., 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: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72474 SUBJECTS ------------------- trophy lyre music sheet arrow ewer halberd staff harvester garland cornet helmet fasces axe (tool) trophy lyre music sheet arrow ewer halberd staff harvester garland cornet helmet fasces axe (tool) TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with pale turquoise ground colour, painting overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, pale purple, brown, grey, and dark grey enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Buteux, Charles CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain La 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