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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, painted with folwer sprigs in blue underglaze and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, painted in blue underglaze and gilt. The cup has tall rounded sides, strap handle with kick terminal and footring. The sides and rim are concavely fluted with sixteen indentations. The outside is painted with three blue and gold flower sprays, separated by two smaller sprigs. Gilt dentate band to interior of rim and above footring, and a leaf spray on the handle.
Given by Ralp Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 5.7 cm
Width: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1795
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.63-1918
Primary reference Number: 32860
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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