IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93750 accession number: C.57 & A & B-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale yellow ground, gold paillons and with green, and red translucent enamels, and and blue and opaque turquoise enamels. Cylindrical cup with a single loop handle and domed cover surmounted by a finial in the shape of a multi-petalled flower on a stalk and two leaves. Circular saucer with wide, flat base and deep sloping sides. Both cup and saucer have a suspensionhole in the footring, and there is also one in the rim of the cover. The ground of all three pieces is an extremely pale yellow. The main field of the cup is decorated with alternately facing and backing foliate scrolls ending in paterae, joined by swags of 'jewels' and separated by formal arrangements of stylised flowers. Below is a band of conjoined stylised green and red buds. The borders above and below are composed of a wavy band of trailing leaves on a blue stippled ground between two wide gold bands tooled with two rows of inverted v s with cross-over bands at intervals. There are gold lines down the sides of the handle and three husks and dots down its back. The cover is decorated en suite. The flower is touched wth gold and the leaves are entirely gilt. In the centre of the saucer there is a six-petalled, stylised flower, outlined by gold leaves and conjoined green and red buds, the area within the outlines stippled with blue. The sides are decorated with a smaller version of the design on the cup, set between identical borders. There is a dentilated gold band round the rim. object type: soft-paste porcelain covered cup and saucer, with a pale yellow ground, decorated with gold paillons and stylised flowers, bands, swags and scrolls in enamels. title: covered cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Arthur Sassoon. Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D, Leckhampton, 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/93750 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1785 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century La Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sèvres Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/C_57_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 585 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_C_57_20_26_20A_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 650 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