Chocolate cup and cover, Chamberlain's Worcester

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Chocolate cup and cover. Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory, Worcestershire. 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. Soft-paste porcelain, painted in green, pink and purple enamels and gilt. Height, whole, 11.5 cm, width, whole, 13.0 cm, circa 1795-1805.

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Accession Number: C.100 & A-1918
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 52
Camera: NIKON D800
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 950 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 519.90kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2014:03:05 13:22:13

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18th Century 19th Century British ceramics Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory chocolate chocolate cup cocoa cover covered cup cup enamel enamelled festoon finial Fitz_AA floral flowers garlands Georgian gilded gilding gilt glazed gold handled handles hot chocolate lead-glazed lidded overglaze pink roses porcelain roses service ware serving piece soft-paste porcelain studio ceramics swags tableware twigs two handled two-handled Worcester Porcelain Factory

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