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Description: | Cup of inverted bell shaped form with flaring rim and loop handle. Saucers shaped, moulded with a ridge in the centre into which the cup fits. The cup is decorated with as shipping scene with a large palatial building in the background. This scene is enclosed within an oval of gilt and gilt scrollwork. The rim is decorated with a gilt band from which depends gilt scrollwork and other decoration in gold. The saucer is similarly decorated in gold.
Made for the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Size: Cup - height: 6 cm; Saucer - diameter: 12.5 cm | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 1613 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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