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Factory: Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea cup and saucer, decorated with flowers and spirlas in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tea cup and saucer, decorated in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamels and gilt. Tea cup of 'Bute' shape with simple strap handle; circular saucer with rounded sides and low footring. The cup is decorated with a wide band of scrollwork interspersed with festoons of flowers suspended from ribbon bows and two vases of flowers in gilt-edged oval medallions; the rim, waist and base are banded with double and treble gilt lines. The saucer is decorated en suite.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1810
-
1820
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( red, yellow, green, blue and pink)
gilt
Cup
Diameter 10.0 cm
Height 6.0 cm
Saucer
Diameter 13.0 cm
Height 3.0 cm
presume lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamels and gilt
Accession number: C.102 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 37578
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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