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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, decorated onglaze with Chinese figures in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, decorated onglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt. The cup is circular with tall, rounded sides and grooved loop handle, standing on a shallow footring. Painted in famille-rose style with a continuous scene of two Chinese ladies and two boys; a panel of gilt scrollwork reserved with a vignette of puce flowers, and three small black sprigs surrounds the handle; red line borders, the rim banded in gilt.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 6.0 cm
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration composed of enamels ( imitating famille rose) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Soft-paste porcelain, decorated onglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.74-1918
Primary reference Number: 32873
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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