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Cup with socketed saucer
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Buteux, Charles
Soft-paste porcelain cup and socketed saucer, painted in enamels with trophies, and gilded
Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, pale purple, brown, and black enamels and gilding. The bucket-shaped cup has a double entwined branch handle. The saucer is circular with a narrow, deep cylindrical well, and a wide rim, curving upwards slightly at the edge. It has a suspension hole in the footrim. Both pieces have a white ground. The cup has two almost circular reserves framed by bands of gilding tooled with panels of criss-cross alternating with panels of striations. One reserve is painted with a trophy, comprising a book of music, tambourine, a recorder, an houlette, an arrow, and a basket with a pink bow on its handle, and a garland of flowerst. The other has a trophy comprising a quiver of arrows, a bow and an arrow, a torch an oboe (?), and a garland of flowers. Between the trophies, round the upper edge of the cup there is a border of gilded scrolls, and panels of dots and trellis diaper patterns. There is a band of gilding round the foot, a dentilated band round the lip and touches of gilding on the handle, whose terminals are heavily gilded. The saucer is decorated en suite with two kidney-shaped reserves containing trophies. One comprises a shield, quiver of arrows, spear, an arrow, a sword, a laurel wreath and a spray of flowers and foliage; the other, a woman's broad-brimmed hat with two feathers in it, a distaff, an houlette, and a garland of flowers. The edge of the well has a scalloped and dotted gold border
History note: Unknown before donor
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
AD 1766
: Both pieces bear the date letter for 1766
The trophies are typical of those painted by Charles Buteux, père ainé, ( working at Sèvres 1756 until 1782), who specialized in trophies, although he also executed other kinds of decoration, such as landscapes, cherubs, and various border patterns.
This is a cup with socketed saucer of the first size. The cup is similar to a gobelet à la reine and the socketed saucer, referred to as having 'le milieu enfoncé' was introduced in 1759. It was probably intended to be used by people who were ill for taking milk or milk drinks. See Documentation, Savill, 1988.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, dark pink, pale purple, brown, and black)
Decoraiton
composed of
gold
Saucer
Diameter 15.4 cm
Height 4.2 cm
Cup Rim
Diameter 8.6 cm cm
Cup
Height 8.8 cm
Cup Including Handle
Width 10.8 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: AR joined back to back
Accession number: MAR.C.36 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 82597
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.6.1 & A & B-1974
Accession Number: C.85 & A & B-1932
Accession Number: EC.13.2 & A-1945
Accession Number: C.451.2 & A-1928
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