IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201346 accession number: C.247 & A-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 May 2015 updated: Wednesday 17 February 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hybrid porcelain with a pale purple lustre ground and decorated in gold. The cup is cylindrical with a loop handle with two very slight inward curves on the lower side. The saucer has deep sloping sides and a recessed base. The exterior of the cup is decorated on the outside with a mauve lustre ground over which is painted in gold a woman seated on a stool holding an arrow in her right hand and an unidentifiable object in her left. She looks towards a woman seated on a stool on the right who holds out her left arm to take the unidentifiable object, and in her raised left hand holds a larger leaf-shaped object. On the left there is a woman seated on a rock who holds out her left hand towards the central figure and supports a banner on a pole with her right hand. Behind her, a two-handled urn stands on the ground. There are gold bands round the rim and lower edge, and the whole of the handle is gilded. The interior of the saucer has a mauve lustre ground painted with a man in classical dress holding a thyrsus in his left hand and making an offering of something held in his right over a smoking altar. Below there is a shield over crossed spears; on the right a lozenge-shaped shield over crossed spears; and on the left, an axe, a flambeau and a victor’s wreath. title: coffee can and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mercury, [probably the firm at 1 Ladbroke Road,] London, from whom purchased on 26 October 1998 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/201346 PEOPLE ------------------- Hogwood, Christopher TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hybrid hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: John Rose & Co CITATIONS -------- Collecting Lustreware 19th Century Lustreware ---