coffee cup & saucer
Summary
Public: Coffee can and saucer, hard paste porcelain, floral decoration in puce, blue, green, yellow, brown and black enamel colours with gilt detail. Private: Coffee cup and saucer, hard paste porcelain. Cylindrical cup with angular handle, flat base. Deep saucer with straight, steeply sloping sides. Painted in puce, blue, green, yellow, brown and black enamel colours and gilt with naturalistic flower sparys and borders of painted pearl decoration. Rims and details picked out in gilt.
Object Name
coffee cup & saucer
Creators Name
Date Created
c.1790
Dimensions
cup: 6.4cm
saucer:
accession number
1981.341/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Germany
Medium
Credit
Dr Frederick Lacks and Dr Erna Lacks Bequest
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