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Production: Capodimonte Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain with very pale duck egg blue glaze, painted in polychrome enamles and gilded. The cup has thick lower part of bowl, but the walls have much reduced thickness from the base of the angular handle upwards. A small out turned lip on the saucer. Painted in colours with 'classical' figures in landscapes, and cherubs in cloud scrolls. Gilt lip to cup and rim of saucer.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by L.C.G. Clarke
Method of acquisition: Given (1945-07-20) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1750
CE
-
1755
CE
Rims
composed of
gilt
Saucer
Diameter 13 cm
Height 2.5 cm
Cup
Height 7.3 cm
Width 8.9 cm
Accession number: EC.20 & A-1945
Primary reference Number: 140403
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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