tea-cup;
saucer
- Museum number
- 1923,0716.37.CR
- Description
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Tea-cup and saucer; porcelain; with handle; painted in green and black enamel with ruins and figures; handle gilt; gilt dentelle pattern on rim; inside of cup decorated with floral spray; marked.
- Production date
- 1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 centimetres (cup including handle)
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Diameter: 13.20 centimetres (saucer)
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Diameter: 5.10 inches (saucer)
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Height: 4.90 centimetres (cup)
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Height: 1.90 inches (cup)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Dawson 2007:
Landscape scenes with figures, ruins, obelisks and buildings painted in balck, washed in green and embellished with rich gilding were painted on Chinese blac-de-Chine porcelains imported into England and on Chelsea-Derby porcelains as well as onWorcester. All must have been done in a London decorating shop. Evidently the style enjoyed a period of popularity in the 1770s.
A tea service at Saltram House, Devon, survives almost complete apart from four teacups and saucers of which this may be one. Records show that a tea and coffee service with similar landscapes, perhaps done by the same painter, was purchased from Giles on 20 February 1771 by the owner of Corsham Court, Wiltshire. Another similar cup and saucer in a private collection was exhibited in London in June 2005. A Chinese porcelain cup and saucer with the same decoration is also in the Frank Lloyd Collection (FL383A), and may have belonged to a mixed English and Chinese service.
Another in Robyn Robb 2003 exhibition catalogue 'Fine 18th Century English Porcelain', no. 3, where other comparable pieces are listed: Saltram House, Devon, Worcester Porcelain Museum, ex Drane Coll. exh Albert Amor, 1933, V&A, bequeathed by Arthur Hurst.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1923,0716.37.CR
