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

Cup

ca. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, fluted, with a gilt scalloped edge, and painted outside with bunches of fruit below festooned scrolls in gold, and with another group of fruit inside on the bottom.


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, fluted, and with a gilt scalloped edge, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca 1780.
Physical description
Tea bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, fluted, with a gilt scalloped edge, and painted outside with bunches of fruit below festooned scrolls in gold, and with another group of fruit inside on the bottom.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.4cm
  • Diameter: 7.3cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Part of two tea cups and saucers 414:648/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 591 to C)
These pieces were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Heigham or Higham, London, for £2 10 shillings in August 1872
Subject depicted
Other number
Sch. I 591B - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:648/B-1885

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Record createdJanuary 26, 2009
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