IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93586 accession number: C.41A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, pierced, and decorated with a bleu céleste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, mauve. and black enamels, and gilding. Lozenge-shaped with deep, sloping sides, moulded and pierced to resemble stylised leaves with an anthemion in the centre of each side. The rim is scalloped and the lower part of the outer edge of the footring is moulded to resemble basketwork. There is a suspension hole in the footring. The ground is bleu céleste decorated with garlands of gilt husks In the centre there is an oval reserve framed by a band of gilding tooled with scrolling leaves, and painted in polychrome enamels with a bouquet of flowers and foliage. The interior and exterior of the sides have a bleu celeste ground alternating with reserved white zones outlined with gold. One of a pair with C.41B-1961. object type: soft-paste porcelain tray with pierced sides, decorated with a bleu céleste ground, a reserve painted in enamels with a bouquet of flowers, and gilding. title: tray NOTES ----- type: history note value: Count A.D. Chérémetèff Collection, St Petersburg. Exhibited by A. Wertheimer, 158 Bond Street, London, 1906, CHECK IF NOS 12 AND 13; Mrs Walter Burns, 69 & 71 Brook Street, London; Mary Ethel, Viscountess Harcourt; sold Christie's, London, 22 June 1927, Old English and Continental porcelain, decorative objects and old French furniture, lot 19 CHECK SALE CATALOGUE; Louis C.G. Clarke (1881-1960); bequeathed by Louis C.G. Clarke, 1960. 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/93586 TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, pierced, and decorated with a bleu celeste ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, mauve. and black enamels, and gilding moulding 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 culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Levé, Denis DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 30.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.5 CITATIONS -------- Old English and Continental porcelain, decorative objects and old French furniture Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961 Louis Clarke as a Collector The Chérémèteff Sèvres Porcelain The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Identification of Plates and Services in the Sèvres Sales Registers The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Important Collection of Sèvres Porcelain, The Property of Sir Chester Beatty . . . Very Fine Continental Porcelain . . . The Property of Various Owners . . . 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