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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tea Cup

ca. 1815 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with gilt lines round the edge and painted with landscape scenes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Tea cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, possibly made at the Coalport Porcelain Factory, possibly decorated at the Thomas Baxter workshop, London, ca. 1815.
Physical description
Tea cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with gilt lines round the edge and painted with landscape scenes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6cm
  • Diameter: 7.9cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Part of a tea service C.362 to Z-1935.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.362H-1935

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Record createdJuly 9, 2009
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