IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197435 accession number: C.20 & A-2013 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 29 October 2013 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china with very thin walls, decorated with a turquoise ground, jewelling in red, white and blue enamel, and gilded. The cup has deep sloping sides curving inwards to the footing, and a ring handle. The circular saucer has shallow curved sides, standing on a footring. The exterior of the cup has a turquoise ground overalid by vertical gold stems with alternately red and white jewels. Above there is a horizontal border of stylized flower heads and leaves with white or red jewels on them. This is repeated on the white interior of the cup. The handles gilded overall, and there are two gold bands round the footring. The saucer has a white medallion in the middle with a gilded and jewelled rosette in the centre with one blue spot in the centre. The sides are decorated en suite with the exterior of the cup. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); William Copeland (b. 1966); sold Bonhams', 23-24 July, 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China China Collection, Feock, Trelissick, Cornwall, second day, second part of lot 685 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197435 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1885 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1885 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Copeland CITATIONS -------- The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection ---