IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75708 accession number: C.63-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 5 April 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with a royal blue (beau bleu) ground, painting in greyish-turquoise, shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. Of elongated oval shape with a lip at each end, standing on a footring. In the middle of each side there is a double-entwined handle wth stylised leaves projecting at the top of the handle and leaves in relief at the junctions of the lower ends with the body. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The ground is beau bleu with at each end under the lip a pear-shaped reserve, framed by a wide and a narrow gilt band, and painted in polychrome with an exotic bird standing amid foliage, the Ortolan de Neige at one end and the Perruche de la Caroline at the other. The ground between the reserves is elaborately decorated with chased gold scrolls, stylised plant forms, and swags of flowers and foliage. There are two gilt bands round the foot with a reserved white band between, and a further gilt band a little higher up. There is a gilt band round the rim, sprays of flowers and foliage on the interior of the body at the junctions of the handles, lines of gilding down the sides of the handles and sprays of foliage down their backs. On the base, inscribed in blue enamel above the mark 'L'Ortolan,/de Neige.' and below the mark, 'Perruche/de la/Caroline.' object type: Soft-paste porcelain sauce boat, with a bleu nouveau ground, painted with an exotic bird at each end in enamels, and gilded. title: sauce boat NOTES ----- type: history note value: A member of the Sudell family, probably Henry Sudell of Ashley House, Box, Wiltshire; probably sold Christie's, London, 27 June 1889, Catalogue of an Old Sèvres Service, Oriental, Dresden & English Porcelain and Decorative Furniture, from Gatton Park, formerly the Property of the Rt Hon. Frederick John Lord Monson . . ., one of eight sauceboats lots 74-77, or from two later sales, Christie's, London, 17 July 1895, lot 118, two saucières; or 23 April 1913, lot 35, two saucières. 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: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75708 PEOPLE ------------------- Sudell, Henry SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain. moulded, glazed, and decorated with an overglaze blue ground, reserves painted in greyish-turquoise, shades of green, yellow, dark pink, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1792 - 1793 creation date earliest: 1792 creation date latest: 1793 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Le Guay, Etienne-Henry maker: Bouilliat, Edme-François maker: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 23.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of an Old Sèvres Service, Oriental, Dresden, & English Porcelain and Decorative Furniture, from Gatton Park, formerly the Property of the Rt. Hon. Frederick John Lord Monson . . . Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux The Collections of Sir Alfred Beit: 2 Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces A thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever. 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