IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82177 accession number: EC.37 & A-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 20 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain of creamy tone painted underglaze in dark blue. Cylindrical with slightly irregular sides and recessed base. The domed cover has a flange which fits inside the jar and a flat-topped circular knob. There is a zig-zag border round the lower edge of the jar, and a lambrequin border at the top. The cover has the same pattern round its outer edge, and the knob is decorated with a seven-petalled flower. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted underglaze in dark blue title: toilet jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Viscount Harcourt; Dowager Viscountess Harcourt; sold Sotheby's, 16 November 1945, Catalogue of Fine Continental, English and Chinese Porcelain, French and English Furniture, Works of Art, etc., part of lot 20 (two items for £12). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82177 PEOPLE ------------------- Harcourt, Viscount TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1740 culture: Trou period CREATORS -------- maker: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- French Porcelain of the 18th Century Contribution à l'étude de la manufacture de faïence et de porcelaine de Saint-Cloud pendant ses cinquante premières années Il y a 300 ans . . . 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