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Description: | Artist: Crown Staffordshire Porcelain Co. Ltd., factory;
Production Place: Fenton; Date(s): 1937; Classification(s): bone china, mug, slip casting; Acquisition: given by Robinson, Duncan, 2007-10-08, Given by Duncan Robinson, MA [C.40-2007]
Description: Bone china, slip-cast, with a blue enamel ground, transfer-printed in brown and gold. Cylindrical with sloping sides, and below the the rim, a horizontal band of laurel leaves in relief; loop handle. One side is decorated with a brown portrait of the King in an oval frame with a lion standing on a crown above, and two flags on either side, titled in gold below on a ribbon 'H.M.KING EDWARD VIII' and on the ground below, CORONATION/ MAY 12 1937'. On the other side is a Crown over 'EVIII R', with below, an arrangement of shamrocks, roses and thistles. The band of laurel leaves is picked out in gold. There is a gold band round the base, another round the rim, and a thinner band inside it. The handle is gilded overall. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | mug Crown Staffordshire Porcelain Co. Ltd. bone china | Temporal: | name=1930s; start=1937; end=1937 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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