IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93569 accession number: C.33 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, painted in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, and pale purple enamels, and gilded. The cup has double curved sides and an entwined branch handle. The saucer is circular with curved sides. Both pieces have a suspension hole in the footring. The upper part of the cup and the inside of the saucer have a sablé d'or ground and are decorated with quatrefoil panels (three on the cup and four on the saucer) outlined in gold and painted with a blue, gold and red mosaic pattern. These are linked by pale purple ribbons and bows and swags of polychrome flowers. Below there are swags of green leaves and red berries The swags of leaves have been extended at two points on the cup to conceal defects in the glaze. On the saucer they form an eight-sided figure surrounding the centre. There is a band of gilding round the foot of the cup and dentilated bands round its rim and the edge of the saucer. object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamels with linked panels of mosaic pattern, and gilded. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lionel de Rothschild; possibly sold CHECK CATALOGUE. Christie's, 27, 28,29 April 1942, at 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W.8, Catalogue of the Contents of the Mansion, The Property of the late Lionel Rothschild Esq., OBE, possibly Lot 233 (but says 1755), or lot 238 1767, but description not right); E.L. Paget Collection (no. 72 F); sold Sotheby's, 1 February 1946, Catalogue of Very Important English and Continental Porcelain, the Property of E.L. Paget, part of lot 56, and purchased by Spero (probably Alfred) for £38; sold to 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/93569 TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, and pale purple enamels, and gilded. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1767 - 1767 creation date earliest: 1767 creation date latest: 1767 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Le Guay, Etienne-Henry CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of very important English and Continental porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Musée Cognacq-Jay, II, Porcelaines --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_33_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_33_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_33_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_33_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_33_1961.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_33_1961.jpg height: 430 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_33_1961.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_33_1961.jpg height: 215 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/868/large_C_33___A_1961_2_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/436/868/mid_C_33___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.33 & A-1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/868/preview_C_33___A_1961_2_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/436/868/C_33___A_1961_2_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/864/large_C_33___A_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/436/864/mid_C_33___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.33 & A-1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/864/preview_C_33___A_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/436/864/C_33___A_1961_1_200902_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3328 pixels width: 4992 pixels