IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75270 accession number: C.49 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated in blue, green, yellow, pale pink, crimson, and shades of brown enamel, and gilding. Cylindrical cup with arched and incurved handle. Circular saucer with flat central area and deep, sloping sides. There is a suspension hole in the footring of the saucer. Both pieces are white. The cup has an oval medallion on the front painted in polychrome with a fishing scene and framed by gold, red and blue bands with S-shaped sprays of gold leaves over them. On either side of it there is a smaller circular medallion, one painted with a seated girl holding a fishing rod, and the other with a boy fishing both framed by a gold band and a red band dotted with gold. The medallions are linked by swags of gold leaves. Between the upper edges of the medallions there is a zone with a pink ground which is straight along the top and on its lower edge, between the medallions has pairs of blue and gold C-scrolls with a pendant between them. Below each pair of scrolls there is a crimson rose and a crimson rose bud. Round the top and bottom of the cup there is a border composed of red and blue bands with S-shaped sprays of leaves over them. There is a gold band round the foot and rim; gold lines down the sides of the handle and a leaf and four inverted tear-drop shaped strokes down its back. The saucer has a circular medallion in the centre painted in polychrome with a lady and gentleman and a house beside a river. The sides have four smaller circular medallions, each painted with a different scene: a woman riding a horse; a small ship; a man playing a trumpet; and a woman holding a distaff. The remainder of the decoration is en suite with the cup. object type: soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels with genre scenes in medallions, and gilded. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.E. Backer, London, from whom purchased in December 1944 or shortly after by Louis C. G. Clarke, 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: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75270 PEOPLE ------------------- Backer, H.E. man woman girl SUBJECTS ------------------- ship fishing rod trumpet distaff horse (animal) rose house river ship fishing rod trumpet distaff horse (animal) rose house river TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1778 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1778 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Vielliard, André-Vincent CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire universel de commerce The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain La Porcelaine de Vincennes French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French Sèvres Porcelain 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