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Coffee cup
Worcester porcelain factory - Enlarge image
Coffee cup
- Place of origin:
Worcester (made)
- Date:
ca. 1765 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Worcester porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in lilac and over-painted in enamels
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:125-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 5, shelf 2
Physical description
Coffee cup of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in lilac and over-painted in enamels, with a print of an Italian mountain scene on one side, and the other side has a ruined colonnade with two figures.
Place of Origin
Worcester (made)
Date
ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/maker
Worcester porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in lilac and over-painted in enamels
Dimensions
Height: 7.3 cm, Diameter: 5.4 cm
Object history note
Part of two coffee cups and saucers 414:125/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 660 to C)
These cups and saucers were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mr Baldwin's sale, Forster's, for £2 15 shillings in May 1870.
Acquired as Bow porcelain.
Descriptive line
Coffee cup of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in lilac and over-painted in enamels, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1765.
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Transfer-printed; Painted
Subjects depicted
People; Landscape
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
Ceramics Collection