IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197414 accession number: C.11-2013 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 22 October 2013 updated: Thursday 26 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Felspar porcelain (a type of bone china), moulded, glazed, and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, and raised gilding over a pale peach ground. The tazza is circular with shaped edge, wide sloping rim, with four panels flanked by scrolls in relief at the cardinal points, and a shallow well with flat centre, standing on a low foot moulded with scrolls and shells and having a deep indentation on the right and left sides. The flat area is painted in polychrome with a view of the Port of Messina. The rim has a pale peach ground overlaid by raised tooled gilding in a hexagonal scale pattern with a raised dot in the centre of each scale, interrupted by four scale panels flanked by heaavily gilt scrolls. The underside of the rim is decorated with a circular wreath of gilt scrolls and anthemion motifs, and there is a gold band round the outer edge. The foot has a pale peach ground and the raised scrolls and edges are gilded. The underside within the foot is inscribed in gold ‘The Port of Messina’. object type: felspar porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with a view of the Port of Messina, bordered by raised gilding over a pale peach ground title: tazza NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ronald Spencer Copeland (1918-2002); William Copeland (b. 1966); sold Bonham's, 23-24 July 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China Collection, Feock, Trelissick, Cornwall, 2nd day, lot 665. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197414 SUBJECTS ------------------- Messina port Messina port TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china category: felspar porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 185151 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 185151 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Copeland & Garrett maker: Lucas, Daniel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Great Exhibition of 1851 title: 200 Years of Spode CITATIONS -------- 200 Years of Spode Spode-Copeland-Spode, The Works and its People 1779-1970 The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection Spode & Copeland Marks and other Relevant Intelligence Closer to the Bone: the Development of Bone China ---