IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93751 accession number: C.58-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with pale yellow ground colour, painting blue, greyish-blue, several shades of green, yellow, dark pink, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding. Circular, with slightly shelving rim and shallow well. There is a suspension hole in the footring. In the centre, painted in polychrome, a goose 'Oye de Canada' stands on an island beside a willow tree, with a small bird flying towards it. There are stones and grasses in the foreground and hazy trees in the background. The rim is decorated with red and gold oeil-de-perdrix on a pale yellow ground with three rectangular reserves with cut-out corners, framed by gold bands tooled alternatively with areas of striations and criss-cross trellis, each painted in polychrome with a bird in a landscape: 'Petite Perruche verte de Cayenne', 'Le Grand Pingoun des Mers du Nord' and 'Oye de Guinée'. Between them there are three small, oval reserves painted en grisaille with female heads in profile, two facing to the left, and one to the right. There are bands of gilding round the inner and outer edges of the rim. object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate decorated with a pale yellow border with gold and red oeil de perdrix decoration, reserves painted in polychrome enamels with birds in landscapes, cameo heads en grisaille, and gilding title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Collection of H.R.H. Princess Paley. Christie's, 6 June 1929, Collection of French Furniture, objects of art and porcelain formed by Princess Paley, first part of lot 19; Louis C.G. Clarke, 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/93751 PEOPLE ------------------- Paley, Princess SUBJECTS ------------------- goose bird landscape goose bird landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilded. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1784 - 1784 creation date earliest: 1784 creation date latest: 1784 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 CITATIONS -------- Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century Sèvres, Le XVIIIe Siècle The Eden Service, Another Diplomatic Gift --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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