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Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, decorated with Oriental scenes underglaze in blue and onglaze in red enamel, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain coffee cup, painted underglaze in blue, and onglaze in red enamel and gilt. The circular cup has tall, rounded sides and a loop handle, and stands on a wedge-shaped footring. It is painted with a house and pagodas on islands, two figures on a bridge, and two sampans, the rim banded on the interior with a trellis diaper and flowerhead border.
Given by D.M. Hunting, Esq.
Height: 6.0 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1934) by Hunting, D. M.
Late 18th century
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of enamel ( red) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.19-1934
Primary reference Number: 38423
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Coffee cup" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38423 Accessed: 2022-10-01 08:14:51
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Accession Number: C.6.7-1974
Accession Number: C.6.1 & A & B-1974
Accession Number: C.11H-1988
Accession Number: C.226B-1918
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