IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93553 accession number: C.18-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 9 April 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding. Square with low, sloping sides, slightly warped in firing. The unglazed base is pinkish in places, and is speckled in black all over. It has a suspension hole near the left edge (when front is to viewer). The central area is painted in polychrome with two birds carrying branches in their claws. The sides are bleu céleste with a band of gilt flowers and foliage at their junction with the base, and a band of dentilated gilding round the upper edge. object type: soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in enamels, and gilding: two birds carrying branches. title: tray NOTES ----- type: history note value: Acquired by Louis C.G. Clarke before October 1948 when included in an inventory of his collection at Leckhampton, Cambridge; bequeathed by him, 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 Bequst, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93553 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds birds TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated overglaze with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow dark pink, pale purple, and reddish-brown enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Evans, Etienne DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.6 CITATIONS -------- Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 403 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_18_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 201 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 638 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 596 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 638 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_18_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/large_C_18_1961_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/436/566/mid_C_18_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.18-1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/566/preview_C_18_1961_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/436/566/C_18_1961_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/436/562/large_C_18_1961_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/436/562/mid_C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.18-1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/562/preview_C_18_1961_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/436/562/C_18_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels