IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93552 accession number: C.16 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with underglaze blue and overglaze green ground colours, painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, pale purple, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. The cup curves upwards and outwards from the footring and then almost vertically up to the lip, and has a single loop handle. The saucer has curved sides. Both pieces have a bleu lapis ground caillouté d'or with green notched and scalloped scrolls reserved in it and outlined with elaborate gilding. There is a single quatrefoil reserve on the cup, and on the saucer a central trefoil reserve and three quatrefoil reserves on the sides, each painted in polychrome enamels with a spray of flowers, and edged by narrow gold frames tooled with a continuoous zig-zag line There are bands of gilding round the footring of the cup and saucer and dentilated bands round the rim of the cup and the edge of the saucer. There are gold lines down the sides of the cup handle and on its back, eight half stylised flowerheads of graduated size with three dots below, and another half flowerhead at the bottom. Under the handle at the top, there is a half flowerhead and three dots. object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, decorated with bleu lapis and green ground colours, reserves painted in polychrome enamels with floral sprays, and gilding. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Duke of Bedford; Alfred Hill; Sotheby's, 15 May 1942, Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture, p. 6, lot 17; purchased by Mallett & Sons for £9; Louis C.G. Clarke, Cambridge 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/93552 PEOPLE ------------------- Duke of Bedford Hill, Alfred SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1758 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Fontaine, Jacques CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture The Evill/Frost Collection, Porcelain, Furniture & Decorative Arts, Part Three English and European Ceramics and Glass Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain A propos de six Sèvres du dix-huitième siècle The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Sèvres Porcelain 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