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

Cup

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and painted outside with exotic birds among bushes and with insects in shaped panels bordered with gilt scrollwork and reserved in white on a ground of dark blue scale-pattern, and painted inside is a butterfly.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Tea bowl of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770.
Physical description
Tea bowl of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and painted outside with exotic birds among bushes and with insects in shaped panels bordered with gilt scrollwork and reserved in white on a ground of dark blue scale-pattern, and painted inside is a butterfly.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.4cm
  • Diameter: 7.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
A fretted square (In blue)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Part of a set of two tea bowls and saucers 414:650/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 560 to C)
These pieces were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Dalgleish, London, for £5 in December 1867
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 560 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:650-1885

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Record createdJanuary 22, 2009
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