Cup: EC.26-1938

Maker(s)

Factory: Derby Porcelain Manufactory
Painter: Brewer, John
Gilder: Langdon, William

Entities

• Cup

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale pink ground, a camp scene painted in polychrome enamels, and gilding.

Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a pale pink ground, painting in pale blue, geen, yellow, pale red, pale brown and grey enamels, and gilded. Cylindrical with an ear-shaped handle, and slightly recessed base. On the front there is an oval camp scene with five tents and groups of figures in the foreground, surrounded by a border of stylized gold flower heads flanked by gold bands. The rest of the exterior is pink with a gold line round the top and bottom. Inside the white interior there is a border of wavy line with spots above and below. The handled is striped in gold with reserved white cross banding.

Notes

History note: Wallace Elliot; sold Sotheby’s, 24-25 May 1938, Fine Old English Pottery and Porcelain, lot 291

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Place(s) associated

• Derby ⪼ Derbyshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1938-05-20) by Sotheby's

Dating

End of 18th century
George III
Circa 1795 CE - 1800 CE

Note

The painting was attributed to Robert Brewer, who worked at Derby after 1797 but is more likely to be by John Brwer (1764-1816), who worked at the factory from 1793 and later became a drawing master (c. 1808-15). See documentation.