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Barr, Flight and Barr
(Maker)
Soft-paste porcelain teacup, painted with The Four Elements in a deep salmon-pink/orange ground, bat-printed in black, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain painted with a deep salmon-pink/orange ground, bat-printed in black, and gilt. The tea cup (J), is of circular shape with waisted base to the sloping sides. It has a circular ring handle with scroll terminal. It is decorated with a salmon-pink border gilt with a vermicular pattern, and banded in gilt, reserved with octagonal panels containing classical deities representative of The Four Elements, bat-printed in black.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Method of acquisition: Given
(1918)
by
Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
Early 19th Century
George III
Circa
1804
CE
-
1813
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Tea Cup
Height 6.0 cm
presumed lead Lead-glaze Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.96J-1918
Primary reference Number: 37301
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Tea cup"
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