Cup
ca. 1780-1791 (made)
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Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain panels painted with enamels and gilded. Round the top is a ropework border in gold and below is a row of gold festoons and garland with flower pots. In the front is an oval medallion showing a basket of flowers standing on a table.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Clignancourt porcelain factory, Paris, ca. 1780-1791. |
| Physical description | Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain panels painted with enamels and gilded. Round the top is a ropework border in gold and below is a row of gold festoons and garland with flower pots. In the front is an oval medallion showing a basket of flowers standing on a table. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Blurred mark in red enamel) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey |
| Production | Acquired as 'French, c. 1800, mark undecipherable'. Mark identified as Clignacourt, and object redated to c. 1790 in 1921. |
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| Accession number | C.1333-1919 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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