IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201345 accession number: C.246 & A & B-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 May 2015 updated: Thursday 16 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain decorated with pale yellow ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, puce, and black enamels, and gilding. The Bute shape cup has a plain loop handle. The saucer has deep curved sides, and stands on a footring. The cylindrical coffee can has an ear-shaped handle. The exterior of each cup is decorated mid way up the sides with a horizontal band of gold Greek key pattern, broken opposite the handle, by a circular laurel wreath enclosing the coat-of-arms of Bruce impaling Spicer. Above, painted in polychrome, is a half winged male figure holding gold trumpets (?) in both hands, flanked by rinceaux enclosing a swan in the scroll nearest to the figure. Below there are brown rinceaux on a pale yellow ground. Gold bands encircle the foot and rim, and the outside of the cup handle is thickly gilt. The whole of the coffee can handle is gilded. The saucer is decorated with a reserved central medallion enclosing a laurel wreath enclosing the arms of Bruce impaling Spicer, surrounded by a wide band of brown rinceau on a pale yellow ground. The sides are decorated to match the upper part of the cup. object type: Trio of hybrid hard-paste porcelain decorated with a yellow ground, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding. All three pieces bear the arms of Bruce impaling Spicer. title: Trio NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.J. Greenacre Ltd, Wimbledon, from whom purchased on 12 September 1994 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014); purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201345 CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Coalport Porcelain Factory maker: Baxter, Thomas CITATIONS -------- British and Continental Ceramics, 25 November 1991 British and Continental Ceramics, 17 April 2000 Fine English and Welsh Pottery, Porcelain and Glass ---