Coffee Cup

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Artist/Maker	New Hall
Place of origin	Hanley (made)

Between 1781 and 1835 the New Hall China Works exclusively made tea-sets, indicating the importance of tea drinking to English society at this time. This is a tea service consisting of forty five pieces, including a teapot and stand, two sizes of cups for tea and coffee, saucers, plates, a sugar bowl, a milk jug and a slop-basin.

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Categories	Ceramics Bone China
Object type	coffee cup
Materials and techniques	Bone china, slip-cast, painted and gilded Bone China Slip-Cast Painted Gilded
Brief description	Coffee cup, bone china, slip-cast, painted and gilded with floral decoration, made by the New Hall porcelain factory, Hanley, England, about 1825
Physical description	Coffee cup, decorated with bunches of flowers on a white ground within leaf-shaped panels reserved on a deep blue ground covered with gilt scroll work.
Dimensions	Height: 6.4cm Diameter: 7cm Dimensions converted from the registers.
Credit line	Bequeathed by the late Miss Jane Hinuas
Summary	Between 1781 and 1835 the New Hall China Works exclusively made tea-sets, indicating the importance of tea drinking to English society at this time. This is a tea service consisting of forty five pieces, including a teapot and stand, two sizes of cups for tea and coffee, saucers, plates, a sugar bowl, a milk jug and a slop-basin.
Bibliographic references	For pattern number see Saye Hutton, A. de., A Guide to New Hall Porcelain Patterns, (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1990), p. 56. For pattern number see Preller, P., A Partial Reconstruction of the New Hall Pattern Book, 2003
Other number	2384 - Pattern number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.73H-1928

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Record created	November 26, 2019
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1517993/coffee-cup-new-hall/

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