IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93767 accession number: C.64 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, decorated overglaze with a beau bleu ground, painting in purplish-blue, yellowish green, yellow ochre, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilding Cylindrical cup with double curved handle. Circular saucer with flat central area, deep, sloping sides. There is a suspension hole in the footring of the saucer. The cup has a beau bleu ground elaborately gilded on each side with back to back rinceaux, garlands, sprays of leaves and two birds. On the front there is an almost circular reserve, framed by a wide tooled gold band and a narrow plain gold band, and painted in polychrome with an exotic bird, standing amid trees. There are bands of gilding round the foot and rim, lines of gilding down the sides of the handle and a stylised leaf, husks and dots down its back. The base is inscribed in pale blue enamel with the name of the bird, 'Faisan couronne des Indes'. The saucer also has a beau bleu ground decorated with six pairs of rinceau, garlands and sprays of leaves. In the centre there is a circular reserve, framed by a wide chased gilt band and a narrow plain gilt band, and painted in polychrome with an exotic bird,standing on a fallen, sprouting branch, with trees in the background. There are bands of gilding round the rim and outside lower edge. The base is inscribed in pale blue enamel with the name of the bird, 'Le Mâle, appelle le Pape'. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, each decorated with a dark blue ground, rserves painted in enamels with an exotic bird, and gilding. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Earl of Balfour KG, PC ? second Earl (1853-1945) ?; acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, Leckhampton, Cambridge, by whom bequeathed 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/93767 PEOPLE ------------------- Earl of Balfour SUBJECTS ------------------- birds birds TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilded. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1784 - 1794 creation date earliest: 1784 creation date latest: 1794 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory maker: Castel, Philippe maker: Le Guay, Etienne-Henry CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Decorator and Date marks on C18th Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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