IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93749 accession number: C.55-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an bleu nouveau ground, painting in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, pale purple, shades of brown, and grey enamels, and gilding. Circular, the rim scalloped with twelve alternately large and small arcs. The rim is slightly concave and the well has a shallow, concave sides. There is a suspension hole in the footring. In the centre, reserved on a white ground, is a circular panel, framed by a wide band of gilding tooled with bound laurel leaves and a narrow band of gilding tooled with straight lines outside it. The panel is painted with three voluptuous nymphs sleeping in the shelter of a purple hanging beside a tree, unaware of a satyr who peers at them over the hanging. The rim has a bleu nouveau ground decorated with gold scrolls, sprays of flowers and foliage, between which are four, elongated oval reserves framed by wide bands of gilding tooled with overlapping scales and crossed ribbons. The panels are painted in polychrome as follows: (1) Combat des Horiaces et Curiaces - A contest between two soldiers carrying swords and shields while another lies dead beside them and a fourth approaches from behind. (2) Cincinnatus - Two standing men, one wearing armour, invite Cincinnatus dressed as a farmer to come into the palace standing behind them. (3) Les Vestales portant le feu sacré - A young woman kneels in front of a brazier which is being carried by two priestesses. (4) Paul Emile appelle à l'armée - A seated man refuses to look at a young woman being presented to him by another man. All the figures wear classical dress. There are bands of gilding round the inner and outer edges of the rim, and the footring, and a band of gold laurel leaves and berries on the underside of the rim. object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a bleu nouveau ground on the rim, painting in enamels and gilding: in the centre, 'Les Bacchantes Endormies' after Boucher; on the reserves on the rim, classical scenes. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis XVI; ......; Christie's, London, 9 February 1921, lot 157; D.M. Currie; Mrs Alastair Currie; sold Christie's, 13 June, 1946, Catalogue of Old French Furniture and Sèvres Porcelain . . ., p. 6, lot 35; sold to Partridge for 110 guineas on behalf of Louis C.G. Clarke 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/93749 PEOPLE ------------------- Louis XVI (1774-92) nymph satyr woman man Cincinnatus Priestess soldier gardener SUBJECTS ------------------- brazier swords shield flowers foliage palace brazier swords shield flowers foliage palace TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with a bleu nouveau ground, reserves painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, pale purple, shades of brown, and grey enamels, and tooled gilding moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Le Guay, Etienne-Henry maker: Le Guay, Pierre-André maker: Gaillard, René maker: Boucher, François DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.2 CITATIONS -------- The Louis XVI Service Sèvres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle Le Service de Louis XVI Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century François Boucher The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Decorator and Date marks on C18th Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle Les Grands Services de Sèvres Sèvres and other Porcelains in the Collection of Mr Lionel Faudel-Phillips French Porcelain of the 18th Century The Distinguished Collection of a Lady Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collections Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Guide The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain Important French Furniture & Decorations, European Ceramics and Carpets A thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever. 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