Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Chamberlain & Co.
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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
Legal notes
From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood, CBE. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Place(s) associated
-
Worcester
⪼ Worcestershire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2015-04-27)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Circa
1840
CE
-
1844
CE
Note
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.
School or Style
Chinoiserie
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
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
Materials used in production
clear
Glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: a crown with the inscription below it
- Text: CHAMBERLAIN & Co./WORCESTER/155 NEW BOND ST./& No. 1./COVENTRY ST/LONDON.
- Location: On base of each piece
- Method of creation: Printed overglaze in pale pinkish red
- Type: Factory mark
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: 623
- Location: On base of cup
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
Inscription present: circular white stick-on label
- Text: 623/bis
- Location: On base of saucer
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.250 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201343
Old object number: 623 and 623 bis
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 19 May 2015
Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
