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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea cup and saucer, decorated onglaze with flowers, fruits and insects in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tea cup and saucer, decorated onglaze in green ground colour, yellow, green, purple, pink and brown enamels and gilt. The tea cup is circular with rounded sides standing on a footring, with intertwined double twig handle with leaf terminals. The saucer is circular with shallow rounded sides and a low footring. The apple-green ground of the tea cup is edged with gilt rococo scrollwork, the sides painted with a large and a smaller cluster of spotted peaches, cherries, grapes and rosehips, flanked by two insects and two leaf sprigs. The saucer is decorated en suite.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( yellow, green, purple, pink and brown)
gold
Tea Cup
Diameter 10.0 cm
Height 4.5 cm
Saucer
Diameter 13.0 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated onglaze in green ground colour, yellow, green, purple, pink and brown enamels and gilt
Inscription present: crossed swords and '9' in underglaze blue
Accession number: C.96 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 34256
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tea cup" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/34256 Accessed: 2024-04-23 20:05:10
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