Factory: Wedgwood
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.
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
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, third quarter#
Victoria I
Circa
1860
CE
-
1870
CE
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
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.244 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201330
Old object number: 662
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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