Cup cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1770
Materials
porcelain and gilt
Measurements
130 mm (Height); 150 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Worcester
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1448141.2.3
Summary
Cover of one of a pair of two-handled cups, covers, and deep saucers. The blue-scale ground with two shield-shaped gilt scroll cartouches with exotic birds and with other smaller cartouches of insects and having in the central cartouche a butterfly, the covers and saucers similarly painted, the covers with flower finial. Mark, blue square seal. One cup and two covers only matching;
Marks and inscriptions
blue square seal