drinking-cup
- Museum number
- 1923,0314.150.CR
- Description
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Cup; porcelain; with foot; scalloped rim edge; gilded round foot-rim and on broad decorative border with feathery scroll and flower pattern and two oval reserves containing monogram; rest of body and foot painted in enamel blue; hollow foot.
- Production date
- 1780-1800 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.10 centimetres (max)
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Height: 3.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In Ottoman Turkey and the surrounding countries, when drinking hot beverages from a glass or porcelain cup, the vessel rested on a ornamental cup-holder, called a 'Zarf'. These were typically of metalware, but this example is of porcelain. The monogram FG has not been identified.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1923,0314.150.CR
