IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93536 accession number: C.21-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 6 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with bleu céleste ground colour, painting in blue, several shades of green, yellow, pink, mauve, brown, and black enamels, and gilding. Oval, the shallow, sloping sides divided into four large lobes separated by four smaller lobes. There is a suspension hole in the foot ring. The whole is rather heavy for size. The centre of the tray is painted in polychrome with a yellow bird flying towards an owl perching in a tree with another bird perched above it and one bird flying overhead to the left The tree stands in a wood, with a hut beside it. The inside edge of the sides has a bleu céleste and gold wave pattern, below which are swags and garlands of flowers and foliage, looped up to the waves by ropes and tassels alternating with four birds, three of which hold the swags in their beaks and one in its claws. The birds are painted in polychrome. There is a dentilated gold band round the edge. The exterior of the tray has a band of gilding round the foot and round the upper edge, a border of small panels of trellis, oiel-de-perdrix, stripes, and scale patterns, bodered by scrolls. object type: soft-paste porcelain decorated with bleu céleste border, and painted in the centre in polychrome enamels with an owl and other birds in a landscape title: tray NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before donor, Leonard Partridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Leonard Partridge STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93536 PEOPLE ------------------- Partridge, Leonard SUBJECTS ------------------- owl birds tree flowers foliage wood owl birds tree flowers foliage wood TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with turquise (bleu céleste) ground colour, painting in blue, several shades of green, yellow, pink, mauve, brown, and black enamels, and gilding, some areas tooled moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 18th Century-19th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Chappuis, Antoine-Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 29.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- The René Fribourg Collection: I European Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Le Porcellane francesi nei musei de Napoli Decorator and Date marks on C18th Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_21_1947_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_21_1947_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_21_1947_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_21_1947_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_21_1947.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_21_1947.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_21_1947.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_21_1947.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/436/710/large_C_21_1947_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/436/710/mid_C_21_1947_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.21-1947_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/710/preview_C_21_1947_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/436/710/C_21_1947_2_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/436/708/large_C_21_1947_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/436/708/mid_C_21_1947_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.21-1947_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/708/preview_C_21_1947_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/436/708/C_21_1947_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels