IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93570 accession number: C.34 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with green ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, red, and purple enamels, and gilded. The cup has a double-curved outline and entwined branch handle. The saucer is circular with a five-lobed edge, concave curving sides and a slight well in the centre. There is a hole for suspension in the footring of the saucer. The upper part of the cup and the outer part of the interior of the saucer have green grounds divided from the white lower and inner parts by trailing sprays of gold foliage and flowers, forming a wave pattern. Below, or within, in the arcs formed by the dips in the waves, are sprays of polychrome flowers. There are bands of gilding round the foot of the cup and of the saucer and dentilated bands round the lip of the cup, the outer edge of the saucer and the edge of the well. The leaf terminals of the handle are gilded, and there are two broad patches of gilding on the handle itself. object type: Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamels with sprays of flowers, and gilded. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Louis C.G.Clarke, MA, LL.D., 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/93570 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated overglaze with green ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and pale purple enamels, and gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Taillandier, Vincent CITATIONS -------- Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres The French Royal Porcelain Sèvres, The Marton Museum Collection Samobor/Francuski kraljevski porculan, Kolkcija Muzeja Marton Samobor Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection Part 1: Important French Porcelain Il patrimonio artistico del Quirinale, Le Vasselle French Porcelain of the 18th Century at the V & A Vincennes and early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_34_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_34_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_34_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_34_20_26_20A_1961.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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