Beaker
ca. 1820 (made)
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Beaker of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted truncated cone-shaped. Figure-subjects of Beauty, Sappho and Europa are painted in grey monochrome in one large and two smaller medallions which are set amidst a diaper of gilt rosettes and flowers in rectangular panels with a pale salmon-red ground. The panels are separated by broad vertical dark brown bands. Inscribed below the figure-subjects are their respective titles.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Beaker of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, painted by Thomas Baxter, Chamberlain & Co., Worcester, ca. 1820. |
| Physical description | Beaker of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted truncated cone-shaped. Figure-subjects of Beauty, Sappho and Europa are painted in grey monochrome in one large and two smaller medallions which are set amidst a diaper of gilt rosettes and flowers in rectangular panels with a pale salmon-red ground. The panels are separated by broad vertical dark brown bands. Inscribed below the figure-subjects are their respective titles. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | The large figure-subject is taken from a painting by Angelica Kauffmann entitled 'Beauty directed by Prudence rejects with Scorn the Solicitations of Folly', of which an engraving by J.M. Delattre was published in 1783. |
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| Accession number | C.539-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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