Mug commemorating the Coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
Factory: uncertain
Bone china transfer-printed and gilt. photographic portraits of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII with a British lion, crown, roses, thistles and shamrocks, a flags.
Bone china with clear glaze, transfer-printed and gilt. Cylindrical with sloping sides, a horizontal ridge 2 cm below the slightly projecting rim, and a small harp-shaped handle. Decorated with coloured bust portraits of H.M. Queen Alexandra and H.M. King Edward VII titled on ribbons below in capital letters and a crown above them. Below at centre is a recumbent crowned lion flanked by sprays of roses, thistles, and shamrock, and by the Royal Arms on the Queen's side, and the Union Jack on the King's side. There are gold bands on the rim and horizontal ridge and a line down the back of the handle.
Given by Duncan Robinson
Height: 8.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2007-10-08) by Robinson, Duncan
20th Century, Early
Edward VII
Production date:
circa
AD 1902
: The Coronation took place on 9 August 2002
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( green, pale blue, yellow, pink, purple, red, brown, black)
gold
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Handle-rim
Width 10 cm
Slip casting : Bone china, probably slip cast, transger printrf, and gilded
Accession number: C.38-2007
Primary reference Number: 157291
Entry form: 978
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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