[Cabinet cup and saucer, decorated with birds perched in exotic landscapes] [realia].

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Title: [Cabinet cup and saucer, decorated with birds perched in exotic landscapes] [realia].
Alternative Title: Cup and saucer
Creator: Aloncle, François-Joseph, active 1758-1781, artist
Contributor: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
Published / Created: [not before 1756]
Publication Place: Sevres, France
Description: A soft-paste porcelain Sèvres cup and saucer, painted in enamel with flower motifs and panels of exotic birds by François-Joseph Aloncle (fl. 1758-81), with gilding.
Title devised by curator.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A beautiful lilac ground variegated pattern old Sevres China cabinet cup and saucer, the paintings enriched by Birds, of brilliant plumage.
Marks: on the saucer interlaced L's in blue and date letter M (1765); “N” in script underneath for Aloncle; incised numeral 3; cup incised with reversed “s”.
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Provenance: Probably owned by Horace Walpole; probably 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 11, lot 84 bt John P. Beavan, Esq., £2.12.6. Bequest of Alice Hay-Appleton, 1987 to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 item : diameter 5 cm
1 item : diameter 11 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Teacups
Decorative object
Material: hand-painted, gilt ; and porcelain.
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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