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

Cup and Saucer

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Chocolate cup and saucer of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and moulded with an overlapping peacock featheror artichoke leaf pattern in slight relief, and painted in crimson, yellow, and turquoise blue, and with gilt festoons of laurel leaves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cup
  • Saucer
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and moulded
Brief description
Chocolate cup and saucer of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and moulded with an overlapping peacock feather or artichoke leaf pattern, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1775.
Physical description
Chocolate cup and saucer of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and moulded with an overlapping peacock featheror artichoke leaf pattern in slight relief, and painted in crimson, yellow, and turquoise blue, and with gilt festoons of laurel leaves.
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Cavalle or Cavallo, London, for £2 5 shillings in December 1866.
Acquired as Chelsea porcelain.
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch.I 218&A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:396/&A-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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