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Coffee cup
Bristol porcelain factory - Enlarge image
Coffee cup
- Place of origin:
Bristol (made)
- Date:
1774 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Bristol porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:780-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 12, shelf 3
Physical description
Coffee cup, of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, with a looped handle in the form of a bent twig; painted with festoons of flowers hanging from a border of narrow gilt scrolls
Place of Origin
Bristol (made)
Date
1774 (made)
Artist/maker
Bristol porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
'1774' and a cross with the initials 'IH'
Painted in crimson, inside on the bottom.
Dimensions
Height: 6.4 cm, Diameter: 6.7 cm
Object history note
One of two cup with 414:780/A-1885 (Sch. I 763A).
The mark of the cross is the mark of the Bristol factory, and the initials 'IH' are thought to be those of Joseph Harford, iron merchant of Bristol and a partner of Champion in the ownership of a factory there between 1768 and 1769. The service from which these cups were part of was probably made for Joseph Hickey, a London agent for the Bristol porcelain works.
These pieces were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mr Edkins, Bristol, for £2 in February 1869
Descriptive line
Coffee cup, of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, with a looped handle in the form of a bent twig, made by Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, 1774
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection
Ceramics Collection
