IDENTIFIERS
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id:	93590
accession number:	C.44-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu nouveau ground, painting in blue, pale shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale and dark brown, and grey enamels, and gilding. Of four-lobed oval shape, the rim moulded as a series of looped scrolls, the two end ones rising to form handles decorated with bows of ribbon. The inner edges of the lobes are scalloped and fluted. There is a suspension hole in the footring.  The bleu nouveau ground is overlaid by garlands of flowers and and of leaves and berries, linked by scrolls in tooled gilding. The oval quatrefoil reserve in the centre is edged with a wide band of gilding tooled with flowerheads, and painted with a scene depicting an altar to Hymen beneath a tree. The altar is in the form of a fluted pink marble column on which stands a basket of flowers containing a flaming heart. To the right of the altar are two doves standing on an overturned urn, a two garlands of pink roses, and a bow and quiver. To the left is a torch, and a shield bearing a heart pierced by an arrow. Another bow and a quiver are suspended from the tree. In the background there is a flowering bush, and distant trees.  The looped scrolls on the edge and the bows are white with gilded edges.
object type: soft-paste porcelain tray, decorated with a bleu nouveau ground, a reserve painted in enamels with a scene of an altar dedicated to Hymen, and gilding
title:	tray

NOTES
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type: history note
value: acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, (1881-1960) Cambridge; bequeathed by him


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93590


SUBJECTS
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altar
urn
shield
heart
arrow
quiver
bow
torch
garland
dove
rose
tree
altar
urn
shield
heart
arrow
quiver
bow
torch
garland
dove
rose
tree



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a blue nouveau ground,  painting in blue, pale shades of green, yellow, pink, red, pale and dark brown, and grey enamels enamels, and gilding.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1765 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1765
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	Louis XV

CREATORS
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maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 38.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 26



CITATIONS
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French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection
The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain
The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres
A History and Description of French Porcelain
Catalogue of Valuable Continental and English Porcelain, Fine Old English Clocks and Furniture
Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, Furniture, Textiles, Sèvres Porcelains and Other Objects
The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain
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