Coffee cup
Category
Ceramics
Date
1740
Materials
porcelain
Measurements
68 mm (H)70 mm (W)94 mm (D)
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245583.1
Summary
A Meissen porcelain coffee cup. The cup with quatrefoil panels of landscape and harbour scene reserved on canary yellow ground, the rim and handle gilt; gilt mark D on glaze.
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey English and other porcelain stored in cellars, page 98.
Marks and inscriptions
crossed swords / 42 (in gilt over glaze on base)