IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93537 accession number: C.2 & A-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, thown and moulded, decorated with underglaze blue (bleu lapis), blue, two shades of green, yellow, dark pink, orange-red, purple, and grey enamels, and gilding. Ovoid body with gently curving spout and ear-shaped handle, the slightly domed cover surmounted by a knob in the shape of a flower on a stem with leaves. The pot and cover are decorated with bleu lapis scalloped ribbons edged in gold, which fall diagonally from the knob of the lid to the base of the body. The ribbons are decorated in gold with elongated scrolls, rocaille 'frills' and tendrils. The white zones between them, and the spout are decorated with sprays of polychrome flowers. The floral knob is pink with gold leaves. There are bands of gilding round the foot, round the junction of the spout and body and down the sides of the handle, which also has strokes at the top, a group of four petals, and dots of graduated sizedown the back. object type: soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, decorated in underglaze blue, polychome enamels, and gilded, with a pattern of wavy-edged diagonal ribbons alternating with sprays of flowers. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Collection of the Countess of Chesterfield; sold Christie's 1886. INSERT SALE TITLE Mallet & Sons,40 New Bond Street, London W1 from whom purchased by Louis C.G. Clarke and given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 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/93537 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Méreaud, Pierre-Antoine DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam, Fortieth Annual Report, for the Year 1948 The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain The Evill/Frost Collection, Porcelain, Furniture & Decorative Arts, Part Three Sèvres, Musée national de Céramiques, Nouvelles Acquisitions 1979-1989 Königliches Porzellan aus Frankreich, Sammlerstücke und Service der Manufaktur Vincennes/Sèvres The French Royal Porcelain Sèvres, The Marton Museum Collection Samobor/Francuski kraljevski porculan, Kolkcija Muzeja Marton Samobor Collection Charles-Otto Zieseniss Musée de l’Ermitage, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, Catalogue de la Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2_20_26_20A_1948.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_2_20_26_20A_1948.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2_20_26_20A_1948.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_2_20_26_20A_1948.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2_1948.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_2_1948.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_2_1948.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_2_1948.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/639/large_C_2___A_1948_2_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/436/639/mid_C_2___A_1948_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.2 & A-1948_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/639/preview_C_2___A_1948_2_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/436/639/C_2___A_1948_2_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/436/638/large_C_2___A_1948_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/436/638/mid_C_2___A_1948_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.2 & A-1948_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/638/preview_C_2___A_1948_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/436/638/C_2___A_1948_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels