IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93585 accession number: C.40 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a green ground, painting in blue, very dark blue, shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding. Circular, the sides curving outwards and upwards from the footring and then almost vertically to the rim. The cover is slightly domed and has a knob in the shape of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk with three leaves. There are suspension holes in the footring of the bowl and inside the flange of the cover. The ground is green with an overall scale pattern outlined in very dark blue with a gold spot and five radiating gold strokes in each scale. There are two oval reserves on the bowl and on the cover, each framed by a band of gilding tooled with alternating panels of criss-crosses and striations. One reserve on the bowl containsan exotic bird standing in a landscape between a flowering plant and bushes, and the other an exotic bird perching on a tree branch, with a plant on the right and hazy trees in the background. There are bands of gilding round the foot and a dentilated band round the rim. The cover has two kidney-shaped reserves, similarly framed, each painted with an exotic bird standing between plants in a landscape. The finial is gilded overall, and there is a dentilated gold band round the edge. object type: soft-paste porcelain, with a green ground, painted in enamels in reserves each containing a bird in landscape, and gilded. title: sugar bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Duke of Bedford's Collection. Sold 20 February 1934, Chinese and Continental Porcelain, Decorative Objects and Furniture, the property of a gentleman, lot 75,; bought by Mallett & Son; purchased by Louis C.G. Clarke in 1934, for £70; 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/93585 PEOPLE ------------------- Duke of Bedford SUBJECTS ------------------- birds flowers trees landscape birds flowers trees landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, thrown and moulded, decorated with a green ground, painting in blue, very dark blue, shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilding throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1769 - 1769 creation date earliest: 1769 creation date latest: 1769 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Aloncle, François-Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Chinese and Continental Porcelain, Decorative Objects and Furniture Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII - Porcelains Oriental and French French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_40_20_26_20a_1961_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 894 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_40_20_26_20a_1961_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 573 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_40_20_26_20a_1961_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 894 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_40_20_26_20a_1961_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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