- Museum number
- C430.1
C430.2 - Object
- Cup and saucer, part of a set, Tournai Porcelain Factory, possibly painted by Fidelle Duvivier, soft-paste porcelain, about 1765
- Description
- Saucer, part of a set with cup, French, Tournai c. 1765. Soft paste porcelain, painted in enamels in the style of S\'e8vres by Duvivier. Cup painted with birds in the foreground, a couple in middle distance, an island and shipping in distance. Part of a cabaret with nos. C428, C428, and C431.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- saucer
cup - Subject
- Animal
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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