IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74645 accession number: C.35-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated on the outside with a green ground, painting in blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, pink, pale purple, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gildin. The elongated, lobed oval vase stands on a low foot, and has a slightly concave back and a bowed front. The rim is curved and rises at either end to form handles, moulded from half way up the sides with acanthus leaves. The glaze on the interior has areas of blue and grey speckling. There are two suspension holes in the footring. The ground is bluish-green with an oval reserve on the front and back framed by wide bands of gilding tooled with short lines crossed at intervals by crossed ribbons, and flanked by rectangular vertical panels filled by four vertical rows of gold dotted circles. The reserve on the curved side is painted in polychrome enamels with a harbour scene featuring two sailors leaning on a barrel beside a fire, and behind them three others working on the rigging of a ship. The shore on the right is backed by high cliffs, and on the left, the sea extends to the horizon. The reserve on the back is painted with a spray of flowers with a flying bird on each side The handles are white with touches of gilding on the moulded leaves. There is a band of gilding round the foot and a dentilated band round the rim. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a green ground, and reserves painted in enamels with scenes of sailors, ships, flowers and birds, and gilded. title: flower vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert John, Lord Carrington, Whitehall, London, before March 1864; on his death in 1868 inherited by Charles Robert, Lord Carrington, from 1912 Marquess of Lincolnshire; probably sold Christie's, 5 December 1928, Catalogue of Old English and French Furniture, Decorative Objects, the Property of the Most Hon. The Marquess of Lincolnshire, p. 7, lot 40. Purchased by Louis C.G. Clarke from Mallett & Sons before October, 1948; Louis C.G. Collection; bequeathed by Louis C.G. Clarke, 1960. 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/74645 PEOPLE ------------------- sailor SUBJECTS ------------------- ship barrel fire birds flowers acanthus working rigging sea cliff ship barrel fire birds flowers acanthus working rigging sea cliff TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and decorated on the outside with a green ground, painting in blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, pink, pale purple, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1767 - 1767 creation date earliest: 1767 creation date latest: 1767 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Cornaille, Antoine-Toussaint DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Old English and French Furniture, Decorative Objects, the Property of the Most Hon. The Marquess of Lincolnshire Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Les Marques de Sèvres The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. 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