Commemorative Cup, Saucer and Plate
Factory: Queen Anne (Doulton Group)
Bone china cup, saucer, and plate decorated with black and colour prints commemorating the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, and gilded
Bone china, decorated overglaze with black and colour prints, probably slide-on, and gilded. The bell-shaped cup stands on a sloping foot and has a double-curved handle. The saucer has a wavy edge, curved sides, and a circular central depression. The plate is circular with a wavy edge, slightly sloping rim, shallow well and flat centre. Each piece is decorated with two adjacent medallions enclosing photographic images of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, with below a pale blue ribbon below printed with ‘29 JULY/THE MARRIAGE OF/H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES/AND LADY DIANA SPENCER/1981’, and above and around the medallions with pink, yellow and blue flowers and green foliage. Also with a red griffin, standing over sprays of thistles, leeks, shamrock (?) and a rose, coloured blue, yellow and green, and pink and yellow respectively. These motifs are printed on opposing sides of the cup. On the saucer and plate, the griffin and flowers motif is repeated twice. The edges of the saucer and plate, and the foot and rim of the cup are each encircled by a gold band band, and the cup handle has lines down its sides and a vertical stroke on its outer edge
History note: Purchased new by the donor
Given by Ruth Jacques
Method of acquisition: Given (2007-07-16) by Jacques, Ruth
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth I
Production date:
AD 1981
Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles. Henry Doulton introduced decorative stoneware and architectural terracotta at Lambeth in the mid 1860s and in the 1880s opened a factory at Burslem, Staffordshire, where bone china and other wares were made. In 1901, Edward VII granted the Royal warrant to the factory. Queen Anne (Doulton Group) operated at Burslem from 1973
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour
clear
Glaze
Bone china
Moulding
: Bone china, moulded, glazed, and decorated with prints, probably slide-on transfers, in pale blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and black
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.34 & A & B-2007
Primary reference Number: 150623
Entry form number: 960
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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