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Factory: Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory
Sodt-paste porcelain chocolate cup and cover, painted with green leaves and roses in green, pink and purple enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain chocolate cup and cover, painted in green, pink and purple enamels and gilt. The cup is cylindrical with sloping sides, with ring handles; the slightly domed cover is surmounted by a finial formed of entwined twigs. The cup is decorated with six deep swags of green leaves with a pink and a purple rose at the base of each, from which spring arching sprays of gilt leaves; the base and rim are banded with a gilt lozenge border. The cover is decorated en suite with the ring finial picked out in gilding.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 13.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Late
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1795
-
1805
Decoration composed of enamels ( green, pink and purple) gilt
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Porcelain painted in green, pink and purple enamels and gilt
Accession number: C.100 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 37403
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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