Coffee cup
Category
Ceramics
Date
1765
Materials
porcelain and gilt
Measurements
54 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Frankenthal
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1448174.1
Summary
One of two coffee cups painted in colours and gilt, each with an exotic bird perched on a tree beneath an arch formed of gilt rococo scrolls and flanked by flower sprigs beneath a border of turquoise lozenges and puce diapering. (a) with a ruffed bird, (b) with a pink bird. Mark, crowned CT in blue and incised N. A copy of the Sèvres porcelain service made for the Elector Palatine.
Provenance
a copy of the Sèvres porcelain service made for the Elector Palatine.
Marks and inscriptions
mark, crowned CT in blue and incised N