IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201344 accession number: C.248 & A-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 May 2015 updated: Tuesday 25 June 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, painted overglaze in red and yellow enamels, and gilded. The cup is of London shape. The saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the outside above the carination with a formal repeating pattern of gold stylized foliage with two pairs of red palm or fern fronds one above the other at intervals. Above and below there is a yellow horizontal band. Inside there is a border of gold plant motifs with a yellow horizontal band below it. A gold band encircles the foot and the outside of the handle is entirely gilt. The interior of the saucer has a similar pattern radiating from gold and yellow concentric circles in the centre. Above is a yellow band, and round the rim the same border as on the interior of the cup. A gold band encircles the rim. object type: Bone china, with London shape cup, decorated mainly in gold with small motifs in red enamel and yellow banding title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Antique Porcelain Gallery, Sydney, from whom purchased on 10 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 then Collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201344 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1812 - 1813 creation date earliest: 1812 creation date latest: 1813 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Spode CITATIONS -------- Spode, A History of the Family, Factory and Wares from 1733 to 1833 Staffordshire Porcelain ---