Factory: Chamberlain & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer with knurled edges, decorated in polychrome enamels with 'Dragon in compartments' pattern, and gilded
Soft-past porcelain with ‘pie crust’ or knurled edges, painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, pink, red, and a little black enamels and heavily gilded. The cup is of flaring 'bucket can' shape with a ring handle. The circular saucer has steeply sloping sides, a curved well, and stands on a footring. The outside of the cup and interior of the saucer are decorated with 'Bengal Tiger' or ‘Dragon in Compartments’ pattern: comprising three lappet shapes enclosing respectively a kylin, a dragon, and a vase of flowers on a low table, surrounded by areas of red and green ground, and thickly applied gilding. The cup has a Chinese style border inside the rim, and a pink multi-petalled dark pink flower in its base, which also appears in the centre of the saucer. There are wide bands of gilding over the knurled edges of both pieces, a narrower band round the base of the cup, and lines down the sides and back of the handle.
History note: Grafton Antiques, Sydney, from whom purchased on 11 June 1993 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood, CBE. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Circa
1840
CE
-
1844
CE
This popular pattern, no. 75, derived from Chinese famille verte porcelain of the Kangxi period was produced at the original Worcester factory, and its production was continued at Richard Chamberlain's factory. The mark indicates that this cup and saucer was made at Chamberlain's after 1840 and before the closure of its Coventry Street showroom in 1844.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, yellowish-green, yellow, pink, red, and a little black)
gold
Cup
Diameter 7.8 cm
Height 8.2 cm
Width 9.6 cm
Saucer
Die Axis 15 cm
Height 3 cm
Handle
clear
Glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: a crown with the inscription below it
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white stick-on label
Accession number: C.250 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201343
Old object number: 623 and 623 bis
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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