- Museum number
- C429.1
C429.2 - Object
- Sugar bowl and cover, part of a set, Tournai Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, about 1765
- Description
- Covered Sucrier. Part of a cabaret with C 428, 430, 431. Painted with birds standing on a rock with two other birds (?one a crane) Plain narrow rim with gilt edging and stylised scrolls.Domed lid., white and gold knob.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Tournai cipher in gold
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Container
Lid
Teapot, teacup and saucer and covered sugar bowl
Tournai Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, about 1765
C429, C430 & C431
Along with flowers, birds provided rich decorative subject matter for eighteenth-century porcelain painters. Broadly painted imaginary birds, derived from Chinese phoenixes, were known as ho ho birds. Today they are sometimes categorised as Exotic, Fabulous, Dishevelled, Aggressive or Agitated depending on their appearance. Real birds were copied from engravings in books such as Georges-Louis-Leclerc Buffon’s Natural History of Birds (1771).
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