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Pot à lait à pieds
Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels with flowers and foliage, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, orange-red, mauve and black enamels and gilding. The jug stands on three branch feet. Its bulbous body contracts at the neck and then flares upwards and outwards at the front to form a lip, the rim at the sides being slightly everted and notched. The crabstock handle rises up directly from the rim and curves upwards and then outwards and downwards until it meets the most bulbous part of the body. Small sprays of flowers and foliage in relief sprout from the junctions of the legs and handle with the body. The ground is bleu céleste with a pear-shaped reserve below the lip, painted in polychrome with a bouquet of mixed flowers and foliage, and framed by a band of tooled gilding. Round the neck there are looped garlands of gold leaves, and two sprays descend inside on either side of the lip All the applied flowers and leaves are gilded, and there are touches of gilding on the handle and feet.
History note: Unknown before C.B. Marlay
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1760
CE
-
1770
CE
This form, described as a pot à lait à trois pieds, was inspired by silver milk jugs. It was in production by October 1752 and a second size had been introduced by March 1753. A third size was made from 1756. This one is of the first size, (see Documentation, Savill, 1988). This decorative format of bleu céleste ground, with flowers in the reserve was extremely popular and long-lived.The tooled design on the gilding round the reserve is close to Savill's 72, (see Savill, 1988, III)
Decoration
composed of
ground colour
( bleu celeste)
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, orange-red, mauve and black)
Decoraiton
composed of
gold
Whandle-lip
Width 12.8 cm
Body
Gilding
Handle
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: MAR.C.34-1912
Primary reference Number: 82589
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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