coffee cup
Summary
Public: Coffee cup, soft paste porcelain, reeded loop handle, transfer-printed overglaze in black with scenes of rural life. Private: Coffee cup, tapered footring, rising to slightly everted rim, reeded loop handle. Transfer-printed overglaze, black. Milkmaids depicts one milkmaid carrying pail on head, man helps other milkmaid, on right, with her pail. Distant right hayrick in front of tree. Left, cow grazing, distant barn. Birds in sky, rural landscape. Milkmaid with calf shows woman behind calf, in front of thatched barn, tree to right. Horned cow to left. Rural landscape, birds in sky. Enamelled overglaze black band inner rim.
Object Name
coffee cup
Creators Name
Date Created
c 1760=1770
accession number
1948.201
Collection Group
Place of creation
Worcester
Medium
Credit
Gift of Mrs R E M Dykes
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