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Factory:
Neale & Co.
(Perhaps)
Factory:
Leeds Pottery
(Perhaps)
Creamware chocolate cup and saucer, transfer-printed overglaze in black with Minerva and emblems of Wisdom and Industry.
Chocolate cup and saucer. Cream-coloured earthenware, transfer-printed overglaze and painted in jet black. Pale yellow lead-glaze, inclining towards green where it lies thickly within the footrings. The base and exterior of the cup are lightly crazed with a fine mesh. The cup stands on a low footring from which its sides curve outwards and then almost vertically upwards to the rim; reeded double intertwined loop handle with flower and leaf terminals. The saucer has a low footring and deep, concave curving sides. The front of the cup and the centre of the saucer are transfer-printed with a medallion with a medallion enclosing a figure of Minerva, various emblems of Wisdom and Industry and the motto 'LET WISDOM UNITE US', flanked by trophies of game. The interior of the cup is painted with an eight-petalled, stylised flower. Borders on both cup and saucer are composed of a horizontal band from which run close, vertical lines of varying lengths so as to form a rough zig-zag below the band.
History note: Purchased from Peter Buckie, 31 Trinity Street, Cambridge
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1980) by Buckie, Peter R.
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1780
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
enamel
( black)
Saucer
Diameter 12.6 cm
Cup
Height 6.8 cm
cream-coloured
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Moulding
: Cream-coloured earthenware, transfer-printed overglaze and painted in jet black.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.5 & A-1980
Primary reference Number: 75307
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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