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A Dog with Two Geese
Translated as: Chasse au Canard
Production: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain group of a dog with two geese, decorated with enamels, and gilding.
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, decorated overglaze with green, pink, shades of brown, and grey enamels, and with remnants of gilding. The base is unglazed and has a small, central, oval ventilation hole. The dog, perhaps a large, clipped poodle, stands on a rocky base. He is attacking two geese, one of which lies on the ground beneath him, the other is held by its neck in his mouth. Behind the dog there is a clump of bulrushes. The dog is painted brown with darker brown ears, eyebrows and whiskers, and has a pink nose. The geese are shaded in grey. The rushes are green with a brown bullrush head. The base is uncoloured but has remnants of gilding round the edge.
History note: Uncertain before Louis C.G. Clarke, Cambridge
Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1752
CE
-
1756
CE
This group was probably decorated outside the factory at a much later date and the mark for 1763 added then. This is suggested by the application of enamel on the rushes over the breaks. This date could have been chosen because there is an example of this model in the biscuit with incised F mark, presented to the Duchess of Bedford as part of a service in 1763, and still at Woburn Abbey
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, pink, shades of brown, and grey)
gold pigment
( small remnants)
Over Bullrush
Height 13.8 cm
Base
Length 21.6 cm
Exterior
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in green, pink, shades of brown, and grey enamels, and with remnants of gilding.
Inscription present: two hearts joined together, pierced by an arrow
Accession number: C.6-1961
Primary reference Number: 75669
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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