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Factory: Minton
Bone china (?) decorated with a bright yellow ground, painting in dark maroon enamel, and gilding. The can is cylindrical with a circular ring handle. The saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footrim. The cup is decorated externally with a yellow ground on which is painted a dark maroon landscape with a ruin on the right, and a low farm house and a tree on the left with mountains in the distance. There is a gold band below and another on the rim. Inside at the top there is a border of gold foliated scrolls. The cup is decorated en suite with ruins in a landscape with trees and distant mountains radiating from two gold concentric circles in the middle. Below the the rim there is a border of foliated scrolls between gold horizontal bands. Pattern no. 604.
History note: Bondith [?], J. New York, from whom purchased with a pair on 10 December 1992,by Christopher Hogwood, CBE, (1941-2014) Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
The decoration imitates French late 18th porcelain, decorated with yellow grounds and monochrome purple or dark puce landscapes. On Minton, the painting is often executed rather roughly.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( dark puce or maroon)
gold
Suacer
Diameter 13.8 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.8 cm
Height 6 cm
Width 8.3 cm
Saucer
Height 3.2 cm
clear Glaze
Accession number: C.240 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201331
Old object number: 257
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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