Factory: John Rose & Co (Probably)
Hybrid porcelain with a pale purple lustre ground and decorated in gold. The cup is cylindrical with a loop handle with two very slight inward curves on the lower side. The saucer has deep sloping sides and a recessed base. The exterior of the cup is decorated on the outside with a mauve lustre ground over which is painted in gold a woman seated on a stool holding an arrow in her right hand and an unidentifiable object in her left. She looks towards a woman seated on a stool on the right who holds out her left arm to take the unidentifiable object, and in her raised left hand holds a larger leaf-shaped object. On the left there is a woman seated on a rock who holds out her left hand towards the central figure and supports a banner on a pole with her right hand. Behind her, a two-handled urn stands on the ground. There are gold bands round the rim and lower edge, and the whole of the handle is gilded. The interior of the saucer has a mauve lustre ground painted with a man in classical dress holding a thyrsus in his left hand and making an offering of something held in his right over a smoking altar. Below there is a shield over crossed spears; on the right a lozenge-shaped shield over crossed spears; and on the left, an axe, a flambeau and a victor’s wreath.
History note: Mercury, [probably the firm at 1 Ladbroke Road,] London, from whom purchased on 26 October 1998 by Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014); 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
19th Century, Early#
George IV
Production date:
circa
AD 1810
The attribution to Coalport is based on the resemblance of the decoration to lustred earthenware made there such as a plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, C.253-1909, with copper lustred ground and gold neoclassical motifs, dated to c. 1805-10.
Exterior Of Cup
composed of
copper-lustre
( pale purple)
Interior Of Saucer
composed of
copper-lustre
( pale purple)
Decoration
composed of
gold
Saucedr
Diameter 12.8 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.8 cm
Height 8.5 cm
Width 9 cm
Saucer
Height 3 cm
clear
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular whitepaper stick-on label with the number written in black and the bis in green
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.247 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201346
Old object number: 1314 bis
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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