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Coffee cup and saucer: C.244 & A-2015

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

Entities

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Description

Creamware coffee cup and saucer decorated with coloured leaves and gilding

Creamware (Queen’s Ware), with slightly yellow glaze, painted in shades of green, pale yellow, puce and dark red enamels. The cup has straight sloping sides and an ear-shaped handle. The saucer is circular with deep sloping sides. The cup is decorated three different coloured leaves, and has a gold band round the lower edge and on the rim, lines down the sides of the handles, and a tapering stroke of gold down its back. The saucer is decorated with three different leaves and has a gold band on the rim.

Notes

History note: Hyde Park Antiques, London from whom purchased on 5 July 1993, by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

  • Etruria ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

19th Century, third quarter#
Victoria I
Circa 1860 CE - 1870 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( green, yellow, brownish-yellow, puce, dark puce, and black) gold
Saucer Diameter 13.1 cm Height 3 cm
Cup Diameter 6.5 cm Height 6.5 cm Width 7.5 cm

Materials used in production

presumed lead-glaze Lead-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Lead-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: WEDGWOOD
  • Location: On base of saucer
  • Method of creation: Impressed
  • Type: Factory mark
  • Text: 7294
  • Location: On base of both pieces
  • Method of creation: Painted in black enamel on saucer and in gold on cup
  • Type: Mark

Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: 662
  • Location: On base of cup
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: 662/bis
  • Location: On base of saucer
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.244 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201330
Old object number: 662
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 12 May 2015 Updated: Tuesday 29 November 2022 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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