IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75312 accession number: C.50 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a mauve ground, and painting in blue, green, pink and mauve enamels, 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 have a mauve ground decorated with blue and gold oeil-de-perdrix. The cup has two large oval reserves framed by a plain gold band, each painted in blue, mauve and green with a cornflower spray, surrounded by an oval garland of pink roses, small blue flowers and green leaves. Between them there are two smaller oval reserves, each painted in blue, mauve, and green with a cornflower spray, and framed by two gilt bands. There are gold bands round the foot and rim and lines of gilding down the sides of the handle, which also has a stylised leaf, two husks and dots down its back. The saucer has a small circular reserve in the centre framed by a narrow and a wider gilt band. Its ground matches the cup, but the oiel-de-perdrix are of graduated size radiating from the centre.The sides are decorated with three large and three small oval reserves painted en suite with those on the cup. There is a band of gilding round the rim and another round the exterior of the foot. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, with a mauve ground, painted in blue, green, and pink enamels with cornflower and rose sprays in reserves, and gilded. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred de Rothschild; purchased from Mallet & Sons, London for £35 in 1929 by Louis C.G. Clarke, 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/75312 SUBJECTS ------------------- cornflower rose flowers cornflower rose flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with a mauve ground, painting in blue, green, pink and mauve enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1779 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1779 creation date latest: 1779 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Noël, Guillaume 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 Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: 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