IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93590 accession number: C.44-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, (1881-1960) Cambridge; bequeathed by him 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: http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/93590 SUBJECTS ------------------- 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 ---------- 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 ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 culture: mid-18th Century culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 38.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_44_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_44_1961.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_44_1961.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_44_1961.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_44_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 527 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_44_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 347 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_44_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 527 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_C_44_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 173 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/998/large_C_44_1961_2_200903_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/436/998/mid_C_44_1961_2_200903_mfj22_mas_.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.44-1961_2_200903_mfj22_mas..tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/998/preview_C_44_1961_2_200903_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/436/998/C_44_1961_2_200903_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/436/994/large_C_44_1961_1_200903_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/436/994/mid_C_44_1961_1_200903_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.44-1961_1_200903_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/436/994/preview_C_44_1961_1_200903_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/436/994/C_44_1961_1_200903_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels