IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131170 accession number: C.3134 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 22 November 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain coffee cup and saucer, glazed, and painted in red, yellow, green and lilac enamels, and gilt. The cup is of double-ogee shape, with a grooved, earshaped handle. The cup and the circular saucer stand on low foot-rings. The cup is painted with the monogram SS in flowerheads, within a gilt oval medallion, which is linked by festoons of berried laurel leaves to two smaller medallions containing the arms of Smith, with Pope in pretence, beneath tooled gilt band and gilt dentil borders. The circular saucer is painted en suite. object type: Hard-paste porcelain coffee cup and saucer, painted in enamels with flowers and the monogram of Sarah Smith, and gilt. title: coffee cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Edmund Burke to Mrs Joseph Smith, 19 Queen Square, Bristol; her daughter, Miss Marianne Smith, 2 Berkeley Crescent, Bristol, by whom given as a wedding present in 1863 to Mrs J.C. Adams (whose husband was Professor J.C. Adams) who gave it to Dr Glaisher on 1 July 1906. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131170 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers berried laurel flowers berried laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated overglaze with flowers and the monogram of Sarah Smith in polychrome enamels, and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1774 - 1774 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1774 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bristol Porcelain Manufactory CITATIONS -------- Bristol Porcelain Bristol Porcelain Bicentary Exhibition 1770-1970 English Pottery and Porcelain Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, May 5th-June 20th, 1948 ---