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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

(Tasse) Gobelet a la Reine

Cup
1754-1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain cup with hipped handle, blue lapis or nuage ground with gilt foliate borders, decoration of birds in reserved white panels.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Title(Tasse) Gobelet a la Reine (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Porcelain cup, birds with blue ground and gilt border, Vincennes porcelain factory, France, 1754-1755
Physical description
Porcelain cup with hipped handle, blue lapis or nuage ground with gilt foliate borders, decoration of birds in reserved white panels.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.3cm
  • Diameter: 7.3cm
  • Maximum width: 9.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Interlaced 'L's, with date letter 'B' and four dots (Maker's mark: Ls in underglaze blue, B and four dots in blue enamel)
  • A compass (Blue enamel painter's mark for Mutel)
  • '*'
  • 'o' (Incised)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Louis Florence, Esq.
Subject depicted
Associated object
Collection
Accession number
C.1246-1917

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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