IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93539 accession number: C.3.1 & A-1955 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase and cover, moulded, glazed, and gilded, with base of probably hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and gilded. The vase is in the shape of a slender beehive made of wickerwork, pierced at the base. The cover is moulded to resemble thatch and has a ring handle in the shape of a doubled over sheaf of corn, tied at the junction with the cover, so that ears of corn radiate from it. Two of each group of three vertical osiers on the vase, the corn stalks and the edges of the thatch on the cover are gilded. The vase stands on a separate square base, decorated with gold scrolls round the outer edges. One of a pair with C.3.2 & A-1955 object type: glazed soft-paste porcelain beehive vase and cover, decorated with gilding title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly Baudin Collection; sold Paris, 12-13 January 1843, lot 131, 'Deux vases a ruche, imitation de Saxe'. . Collection of M. Lion of Paris, probably Adolphe Lion 47 Faubourg St Honoré Paris, VIIIe, or his son Charles who took the business on his father's death, from whom purchased by Mr Cecil Gould. 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 Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93539 SUBJECTS ------------------- beehive corn beehive corn CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1769 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1769 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.7 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Forty-seventh Annual Report, for the Year 1955 Choix de Modèles de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres appartenant au Musée Céramique Sèvres des Origines à nos Jours Vincennes and early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection Les 'Vases Ruche', une acquisition exceptionelle pour le Musée de Sèvres --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 683 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 683 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 683 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 683 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_3_1_20_26_20A_1955_C_3_2_20_26_20A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_dc2.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/436/811/large_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_1_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/436/811/mid_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.3.1 & A-1955_C.3.2 & A-1955_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/811/preview_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_1_200902_mfj22_mas.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/436/813/large_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_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/436/813/mid_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.3.1 & A-1955_C.3.2 & A-1955_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/813/preview_C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_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/436/813/C_3_1___A_1955_C_3_2___A_1955_2_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 5120 pixels width: 3413 pixels