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Factory: Susie Cooper China Ltd.
Bone china coffee can and saucer, decorated with aerographed dark turquoise, sgraffito spirals and painted in blue enamel.
Bone china coffee can and saucer, aerographed in dark turquoise decorated with sgraffito spirals and small circles, and painted in blue enamel. Can shape. Cylindrical cup with rounded loop handle. Circular saucer with shallow curved sides, and a circular depression inside the low footring. The cup is decorated on the exterior, and has a white base, handle and a white interior painted with a blue band below the rim. The saucer has a white circle in the centre, a wide band of decoration, and a white rim and back.
History note: Given to the donor's mother as a retirement gift in 1966.
Given anonymously through the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (1998-01-19) by Anonymous
1960s
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1966
: The mark on both the pieces was used between about 1951 and March 1966. See documentation.
The cup and saucer came from a boxed set of six coffee cans and saucers each of different colours.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue)
Saucer
Diameter 14.0 cm
Height 1.2 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.5 cm
Height 6.3 cm
Width 9.4 cm
Accession number: C.6 & A-1998
Primary reference Number: 28592
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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