IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82538 accession number: C.10.2 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze bleu lapis ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and grey enamels, and gilding. The cup is of a truncated conical form with a harp-shaped handle. The circular saucer has a flat base and deep sloping sides.There is a small hole for suspension in the base of the saucer. Both pieces have a bleu lapis ground. On the cup there are two heart-shaped reserves framed by trellis work, flowers and foliage in gold, and painted in polychrome with two flying birds. In the reserve on the side away from a right-handed drinker, one bird carries a branch in its beak. The saucer has a circular reserve, similarly framed and painted in polychrome with two flying birds. There are dentilated gilt bands round the rim of the saucer, round the foot and rim of the cup, and lines of gilding down the sides of the handle, and paired stylized leaves, a flowerhead, and groups of dots down its back object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, decorated with a bleu lapis ground, and painted in enamels with two flying birds in each of the reserves, and gilded title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: acquired by Louis C.G. Clarke, Cambridge, before October 1948 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/82538 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds flowers foliage flying birds flowers foliage flying TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres A propos de six Sèvres du dix-huitième siècle Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 La Porcelaine de Vincennes British and Continental Ceramics The French Royal Porcelain Sèvres, The Marton Museum Collection Samobor/Francuski kraljevski porculan, Kolkcija Muzeja Marton Samobor An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_10_2_20_26_20A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/511/large_C_10_2___A_1961_3_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/511/mid_C_10_2___A_1961_3_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.10.2 & A-1961_3_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/511/preview_C_10_2___A_1961_3_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/511/C_10_2___A_1961_3_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5120 pixels width: 3413 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/507/large_C_10_2___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/507/mid_C_10_2___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.10.2 & A-1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/507/preview_C_10_2___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/507/C_10_2___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/509/large_C_10_2___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/509/mid_C_10_2___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.10.2 & A-1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/509/preview_C_10_2___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/509/C_10_2___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels