IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93558 accession number: C.20.3 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an underglaze blue ground, painting in blue, several shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, pale and dark brown enamels, and gilding. The cup has a double-curved outline and entwined branch handle. The base is almost matt and speckled overall. The saucer is circular with concave curving sides, and has a suspension hole in the footring. Both pieces have an underglaze blue ground caillouté in gold. The cup has an approximately heart-shaped reserve enclosed in an elaborate frame, comprising scrolls, a rocaille shell, and panels of trellis diaper. The reserve is painted in polychrome with a peasant girl and a boy playing the bagpipes, seated on a grassy mound in front of a cottage. There are two gold bands round the foot and two round the rim, the upper one dentilated on the interior. The handle has gold upper and lower terminals and two areas of gilding in the middle. The saucer has a circular reserve framed en suite with that on the cup, painted with a peasant boy and girl standing in front of a wooden fence with a cottage behind and a barrel lying on the ground in front of them. Behind and to the right are a church and a bridge in a landscape. There is a gold band round the outer edge of the footring, and two bands round the rim, the upper one dentilated on the exterior. Part of a dejeuner with a tray, jug, and sugar basin and cover. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, decorated with an underglaze blue ground, a reserve painted in enamels with a genre scene in the style of Teniers, and gilding title: cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Hill; sold by Sotheby's, 15 May 1942, Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture...The Property of Alfred Hill, (decd), p. 14, lot 64; Louis Colville Gray 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/93558 PEOPLE ------------------- Hill, Alfred boy girl peasant SUBJECTS ------------------- bagpipes barrel fence sitting music cottage landscape bagpipes barrel fence sitting music cottage landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1759 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1759 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Vielliard, André-Vincent CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_1_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_20_3_1961_1_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_1_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_20_3_1961_1_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_2_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_20_3_1961_2_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_2_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_20_3_1961_2_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_3_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 952 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_20_3_1961_3_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 465 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_20_3_1961_3_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 952 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_20_3_1961_3_200904_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 232 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_C_20_3_20_26_20A_1961_1_dc2.jpg height: 625 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_C_20_3_20_26_20A_1961_1_dc2.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/C_20_3_20_26_20A_1961_1_dc2.jpg height: 626 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/preview_C_20_3_20_26_20A_1961_1_dc2.jpg height: 153 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/679/large_C_20_3___A_1961_3_200904_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/436/679/mid_C_20_3___A_1961_3_200904_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.20.3 & A-1961_3_200904_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/679/preview_C_20_3___A_1961_3_200904_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels