tea-cup;
saucer
- Museum number
- 1923,0315.60.CR
- Description
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Tea-cup and saucer, porcelain, the handle formed of two intertwined ropes of clay, painted in colours in supposed Meissen style with a bird on a branch and with a trellis border; marked.
- Production date
- 1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13.20 centimetres (saucer)
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Height: 4.80 centimetres (cup)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Dawson 2007:
Like the [painting on the trio (no. 89), the style of the long-tailed birds on branches on this cup and saucer is only distantly related toMeissen bird painting. the yellow border embellishe with a design of trellis and dots is not found on any Meissen production. Text fro Dawson 2007: Like the painting on the trio ((no. 89), the style of the long-tailed birds on branches on this cup and saucer is only distantly related to Meissen bird painting. The yellow border embellished with a design of trellis and dots in brown is not found on any Meissen production. The small flower painted near the handle of the cup and the flower on the saucer are said to be characteristic of painting done in the Giles workshop, yet the style of th bird painting is highly idiosyncratic.
Among the porcelain listed in an invoice of 5 April 1921 from Law, Foulsham & Cole of 7, South Molton street, Bond Street, to Frank Lloyd is 'A tea cup and saucer painted bird and tree branches in colours with yellow borders. CROSS SWORDS MARK', priced at £18. It seems that the Llyods owned another similar cup and saucer which was painted with a mark similar to that on no. 89.
Teacups and saucers and a waste bowl of this unusual pattern are known, and there is a matching teapot and cover and milk jug in the Worcester porcelain Museum. It does, however, seem unlikely that only one tea service decorated like this was ever made.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1923,0315.60.CR
