Factory: Barr, Flight and Barr
Soft-paste porcelain teacup and saucer, printed with naturalistic feathers in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tea cup and saucer, printed in coloured enamels, and gilt. The cup is of 'London' shape, the en suite saucer on a high wedge-shaped footring. Both pieces are printed with naturalistic feathers, within burnished gilt line borders. The interior of the cup and well of the saucer with a gilt band of alternate vine leaves and tendrils.
Given by Louis Colville Gray Clarke
Method of acquisition: Given (1935) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1813
CE
-
1840
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( polychrome)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 15.0 cm
Height 2.8 cm
Cup
Height 5.5 cm
Width 10.5 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain printed in coloured enamels, and gilt
Inscription present: crowned FBB
Accession number: C.33 & A-1935
Primary reference Number: 37342
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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