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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
(Factory)
Morin, Jean-Louis
(Painter)
Perhaps
Grémont, Claude-Jean-Baptiste
(Répareur)
Perhaps
Poulain, Gratien
(Répareur)
Soft-paste porcelain stand for a mustard pot, decorated with an underglaze blue ground, two reserves each painted in polychrome enamels with two birds in a landscape, and framed by gilding.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with an underglaze blue (bleu lapis) ground, painting in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellowish and brownish green, yellow, puce pink, paurple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding. Oval with curved, slightly lobed sides, and undulating rim with four notches at the cardinal points and four less prominent notches between them. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The stand has a bleu lapis ground with a shaped reserve each end, surrounded by an elaborate rococo frame composed of gilt scrolls, flowers and foliage. The reserves are each painted with two birds in a landscape, one bird standing and the other flying or perched in a tree. There is a dentilated gilt band round the rim. A pair with C.19A-1961.
History note: Possibly Horace Walpole (1717-97), Fourth Earl of Orford, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, or a later occupant of Strawberry Hill. Probably W.J. Goode; sold Christie’s, 17 July 1895, lot 250. Acquired by Louis C.G. Clarke, before October 1948 when recorded in Sotheby’s inventory of his collection at Leckhampton, Cambridge.
Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 3.4 cm
Length: 18.0 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1960-04-27)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Mid-18th Century
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1760
: Accessioned as 1759 but the date letter system has been revised so that A stands for 1754 instead of 1753, so that the G on this piece indicates 1760 rather than 1759.
For the revised dating of this piece, see Documentation, Peters, 2014.
This is one of two different forms which accompanied barrel-shaped mustard pots (moutardiers ordinaires), the other has a cusped rather than indented outline, and a central depression to take the pot. This stand and its pair may have been intended to accompany a pair of similarly decorated mustard pots decorated by the same two decorators, and said to have come from Strawberry Hill, formerly in the Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection (see Documentation).
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, pale turquoise-green, yellowish and brownish green, yellow, puce pink, purple, grey, brown, and black) ground colour ( underglaze bleu lapis) gold
presumed lead glaze Lead-glaze Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, decorated with an underglaze blue ground, painting in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellowish and brownish green, yellow, puce pink, paurple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: M followed by a dot about half way up the right stroke of the letter
Inscription present: gold paper elongated rectangle with cut corners inscribed in black ink with 'Strawberry Hill.'
Accession number: C.19B-1961
Primary reference Number: 93554
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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