Stand: C.19B-1961

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

Factory: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter: Morin, Jean-Louis
Répareur: Grémont, Claude-Jean-Baptiste (Perhaps)
Répareur: Poulain, Gratien (Perhaps)

Entities

Stand
stand for mustard pot

Description

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.

Notes

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.

Legal notes

Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

Measurements and weight

Height: 3.4 cm
Length: 18.0 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

Sèvres ⪼ France

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

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.

Note

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).

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

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

Materials used in production

presumed lead glaze Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

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