IDENTIFIERS
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id:	93540
accession number:	C.3.2 & A-1955

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase and cover, moulded, glazed, and gilded, with a probably hard-paste porcelain base, 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 composed 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, to which it is attached by bolts. One of a pair with C.3.1 & A-1955
object type: Soft-paste porcelain beehive vase and cover, decorated with gilding
title:	vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Posibly Baudin Collection; sold Paris, 12-13 January 1843, lot 131,  'Deux vases a ruche, imitation de Saxe'. Collection of M. Lion of Paris from whom was purchased by Mr Cecil Gould; purchased for £450 and given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, June 1955


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93540


SUBJECTS
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beehive
beehive



TECHNIQUES
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Soft-paste porcelain vase with (probably) a hard-paste porcelain base, with moulded cover and gilded decoration.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1768 - 1769
creation date earliest:	1768
creation date latest:	1769
culture:	18th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 24.7



CITATIONS
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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
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