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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Cup and Saucer

ca. 1745-ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tall cup with ear-shaped handle on plain circular saucer with high foot rim, painted with floral sprays in blue and orange on a yellow ground


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cups
  • Saucer
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Earthenware cup and saucer, blue and orange flowers on yellow ground, from Moustiers-Sainte Marie, ca. 1745-ca. 1765
Physical description
Tall cup with ear-shaped handle on plain circular saucer with high foot rim, painted with floral sprays in blue and orange on a yellow ground
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Object history
Paper label on cup inscribed 'B.204 [?]'
Production
Acquired as Moustiers or Montpellier; relabelled as Moustiers or Marseilles; for yellow ground pieces attributed to Marseilles and Moustiers see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, pp 50-1, 88 and 103-4; for Marseille yellow ground pieces attributed to Fauchier factory see Danielle Maternati-Baldouy, Faïence et porcelaine de Marseille, 1997, cat. 108-113. For discussion of Moustiers and Montpellier see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 49-51.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.568&A-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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