IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197473 accession number: C.23 & A-2013 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 November 2013 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, decorated with small areas of dark blue ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, puce, red, purple and a little black enamel, and gilded. The cylindrical cup has a double-curved handle with a projecting thumb rest at the top. The circular saucer has deep sloping sides which curve outwards towards the rim, and a recessed base. The interior is moulded in relief with a scalloped edging and scrolls around the reserves. The cup is decorated at the top with two half shield-shaped blue reserves one decorated with one gold butterfly and the other with two. The gold scrolled borders of the reserves are linked to each other by a gold scalloped border below which there are swags of polychrome flowers. Below these on each side there is an exotic bird standing on grassy mound flanked by plants. There is a butterfly between the vignettes, and a puce beetle and blue flying insect on either side of the handle. Inside at the top there are four groups of mixed flowers and foliage. The rim and base are banded in gold and the exterior of the handle is gilded overall. The saucer is decorated en suite but with three blue panels, each containing one gold butterfly, and with one central exotic bird surrounded by five flying insects. A gold band encircles the rim and the base. object type: bone china decorated with dark blue ground colour, painting in polychrome enamels of exotic birds, insects, and flowers in the style of the Chelsea porcelain Mecklenburg-Strelitz service, and git title: coffee can and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); William Copeland (b. 1966), Trelissick House, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall; sold by Bonham's, 23-24 July 2013,The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China, second day, one of seven items in lot 713 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/197473 PEOPLE ------------------- Copeland, Ronald Spencer SUBJECTS ------------------- bird insect flower bird insect flower TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1932 - 1932 creation date earliest: 1932 creation date latest: 1932 culture: 20th Century, second quarter# culture: George V CREATORS -------- maker: Copeland maker: Arrowsmith, John CITATIONS -------- The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection The Copeland China Collection at Trelissick Mansion, Cornwall Spode-Copeland-Spode, The Works and its People 1779-1970 ---