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Description: | Public:
Tea cup and saucer made of soft paste porcelain, painted underglaze cobalt blue and gilt with striped pattern.
Private:
Wide tea cup of shanked or spiral fluted shape with indented horizontal band round lower body. Tapering footring and loop handle. Painted with underglaze blue narrow stripes along every other flute, covered in gilt pattern of wavy stem weaving round large dots. White flutes in between decorated with alternating gilt patterns of scrolling waves and simple foliage stems. Gilt edge to rim and round top of footring, gilt detail on handle. Deep saucer with curving sides and tapered footring, indented horizontal band round lower body. Spiral fluted upper surface decorated with same pattern of alternating narrow blue and gilt bands, and white flutes with gilt patterning. Central white panel in well surrounded by scalloped gilt outline, and containing small formal floral motif in blue and gilt at centre.
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: soft paste
Material: painted underglaze
Material: cobalt blue
Material: gilt
tea cup & saucer by Worcester, 1790=1795 (circa), (1917.490/2). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.941 | Go to resource |
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