IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93541 accession number: C.51-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a turquoise (bleu céleste) ground, painting in blue, green, pink, red, and dark reddish-brown enamels, transfer-printed cameo heads painted in reddish-brown enamel, and chased gilding. Circular with a wide rim, and deep well, standing on a fooring with a suspension hole. The dish is heavy for its size. The well has a turquoise (bleu céleste) ground with a central circular reserve framed by a chased gold band. Within it is a wreath made up of branches of laurel and myrtle, tied with a gold bow at the bottom. At the top the branches meet on either side of a gold Imperial crown. Within the wreath is a large script E made up of pink and blue flowers in monogram with 'II' in gold, for Ekaterina II. The rim has white inner and outer borders decorated with small floral sprays separated by husks. Beween them is a broad turquoise band decorated with finely tooled gold foliated scrolls, interupted by three small oval reserves and three larger horizontal oval reserves, each painted en grisaille on a reddish-brown ground to imitate cameos. The small reserves enclose profile heads, respectively of a young woman, a young man, and Pan. The larger reserves enclose mythological scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses: Apollo and Daphne from Book 1; The competition between Apollo and Marsyas, and the Flaying of Marsyas from Book 6. There is a gold band round the edge, dentilated on the reverse, and a wide gold band round the outer edge of the footring. object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate from the Empress Catherine Service, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, 'E II', flowers, and imitation cameos painted in enamels, and lavishly gilt title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Ward (1817-85) 1st Earl of Dudley; sold Christie's, 21 May 1886, Catalogue of the Splendid Collection formed by the Right Honourable the late Earl of Dudley from the most celebrated cabinets which have been dispersed during the last fifty years which (by order of the Executors), lot 95, 108 guineas. D.M. Currie; Mrs Alistair Currie, sold Christie's, 13 June 1946, Catalogue of Old French Furniture and Sèvres Porcelain . .. p. 7,, lot 55 sold for 78 guineas to F. Partridge for L.C.G. Clarke, MA, Leckhampton, Cambridge (1881-1960). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93541 PEOPLE ------------------- Catherine the Great (1762-92) Ward, William, 1st Earl of Dudley woman man satyr Apollo Marsyas Daphne SUBJECTS ------------------- dining wreath olive laurel flaying fleeing wreath olive laurel flaying fleeing TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with a turquoise (bleu céleste) ground, painted in blue, green, pink, red, and reddish-brown enamels, transfer-printed cameo heads painted in reddish-brown enamel, and chased gilding. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1778 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1778 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Dodin, Charles Nicolas maker: Nicquet maker: Boulanger, Jean-Pierre, père DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of/the Splendid Collection formed by the Right Honourable the late Earl of Dudley from the most celebrated cabinets which have been dispersed during the last fifty years which (by order of the Executors),Will be sold by Auction by Messrs. 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