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Description: | Public:
Coffee cup, white salt-glazed stoneware, with slip-cast relief panels containing naked figures and fantastic creatures.
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Deep cylindrical coffee cup, flaring toward everted rim, with curved base on narrow footring and ribbed strap loop handle with pinched and flattened spur at lower terminal. Body slip-cast with eight vertical relief panels of fantastical creatures and naked figures. Panels comprise, from right of handle; coat of arms bearing three quatrefoils, surmounting stag and bird; crowned double-headed eagle, surmounting leafy spray; coat of arms bearing three stags, surmounting naked figure above two smaller figures flanking a crown; two figures either side of table bearing large teapot, kettle on a stove below; bearded head in profile, surmounting gryphon with dead bird in its mouth, above two seated figures flanking large heart; scene from Aesop's Fables illustrating fox and stork, surmounting figure astride a lion, above a swan; reclining naked figure, surmounting unicorn; huntsman with bow and arrow and dog, standing beneath bird in a tree, above fruit bowl(?). Off-white body containing small iron brown specks.
Technique: slip-casting
Technique: salt-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
cup & coffee cup by Wedgwood, Thomas & Wedgwood, John, 1740=1750 (circa), (1923.456). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2688 | Go to resource |
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