IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201343 accession number: C.250 & A-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 May 2015 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer with knurled edges, decorated in polychrome enamels with 'Dragon in compartments' pattern, and gilded title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood, CBE. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201343 PEOPLE ------------------- Hogwood, Christopher TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1844 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1844 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Chamberlain & Co. CITATIONS -------- Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852 An Anthology of British Cups ---