Beaker
ca. 1820 (made)
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Beaker of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted truncated-cone shape. Painted with the figure-subjects of Sappho and Phaon within an oval with the title inscribed below. The reverse is decorated with rosettes and stars in gold on a wide, pale salmon-red band, with a border of floral ornament in blue and gold above, and gilt festoons below.
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 shape. Painted with the figure-subjects of Sappho and Phaon within an oval with the title inscribed below. The reverse is decorated with rosettes and stars in gold on a wide, pale salmon-red band, with a border of floral ornament in blue and gold above, and gilt festoons below. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | One of a pair with C.540A-1935. Formerly in the collection of Capt. H. H. Spender-Clay. The subject is copied from a design by Angelica Kauffmann, engraved by T. Kirk, and published in 1794. |
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| Accession number | C.540-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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