Chocolate cup with saucer, Chelsea-Derby Factory

An image of Chocolate cup with cover and saucer. Chelsea-Derby Porcelain Factory. Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers in polychrome onglaze enamels, height, cup and cover, 5 1/4 in, width, cup and cover, 5 in, height, saucer, 1 1/2 in, diameter, saucer, 5 3/4, in, circa 1775. Chelsea-Derby Period.

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Chocolate cup with cover and saucer. Chelsea-Derby Porcelain Factory. Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers in polychrome onglaze enamels, height, cup and cover, 5 1/4 in, width, cup and cover, 5 in, height, saucer, 1 1/2 in, diameter, saucer, 5 3/4, in, circa 1775. Chelsea-Derby Period.

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Accession Number: C.85-1932; C.85 & A & B-1932
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 595 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 111.59kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Chelsea Porcelain Factory Chelsea-Derby Factory Date Department Derbyshire Porcelain Factory English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Roccoco Rococo Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd ceramics chocolate chocolate cup cocoa cover covered cup cup cup and saucer drinking vessel enamel enamelled floral flowers gilded gilt glazed handled hot chocolate lead-glazed lidded on-glazed overglaze painted pink roses polychrome porcelain roses saucer service ware serving piece soft-paste porcelain studio ceramics tableware two-handled vessel

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