Factory: Spode
Bone china, with London shape cup, decorated mainly in gold with small motifs in red enamel and yellow banding
Bone china, painted overglaze in red and yellow enamels, and gilded. The cup is of London shape. The saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the outside above the carination with a formal repeating pattern of gold stylized foliage with two pairs of red palm or fern fronds one above the other at intervals. Above and below there is a yellow horizontal band. Inside there is a border of gold plant motifs with a yellow horizontal band below it. A gold band encircles the foot and the outside of the handle is entirely gilt. The interior of the saucer has a similar pattern radiating from gold and yellow concentric circles in the centre. Above is a yellow band, and round the rim the same border as on the interior of the cup. A gold band encircles the rim.
History note: Antique Porcelain Gallery, Sydney, from whom purchased on 10 June 1993 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
From then Collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, Early#
George IV
Circa
1812
CE
-
1813
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellow and red)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 14.3 cm
Height 3.1 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.8 cm
Height 6.3 cm
Width 10.1 cm
Handle
clear
Glaze
Bone china
Inscription present: circular gold stick-on label printed in black round the edge as far as AUSTRALIA, and horizontally in rows across the middle thereafter
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.248 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201344
Old object number: 589 and 589 bis
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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