The cylindrical body with a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Includes a sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).
Aloncle, François-Joseph, active 1758-1781, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1756]
Call Number:
sh-000254 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
A soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamel with flower motifs and panels of exotic birds by François-Joseph Aloncle (fl. 1758-81), with gilding
Description:
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”., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of very rare plates, on one is represented the Building of Babel, with many figures, on the other the Death of Abel., Label on verso: Strawberry Hill; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
A snuff box made of silver over brass with a portrait in wax of Madame du Deffand's dog Tonton. She bequeathed the box to Horace Walpole in 1780. It was displayed in the Tribune (Cabinet) in Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A circular shaped gold snuff box, engine turned, with the image in wax of Madame la Marquise du Deffand's dog, Tonton, which she bequeathed, with the snuff box and her manuscripts, to Horace Walpole., Also available as a digital reproduction., and Engraved inscription inside: This box with the portrait of her dog Tonton was bequeathed by Madame La Marquise du Diffand to W. Horace Walpole 1780. Inscribed on rim: Roucel Orf du Roy, Paris.
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Label on verso: 'Walpole Collection Strawberry Hill Sale'; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A Pair of ditto (very rare plates), Adam and Eve and the sacrifice of Isaac., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Various jettons and counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death. Stored in an 18th-century sharkskin-covered box. Formerly located in the Tribune [Cabinet] of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Various Jettons and Counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death., With Horace Walpole's 1792 circular book plate (Type 1) pasted to interior of box; later partial sale [?] label on exterior, loose mss 19th c. label “King James the First and his Family Engraved on Nine Silver Plates By Simon van De Paas from Horace Walpole's Collection,, and Also available as a digital reproduction.