Coffee cup
Derby Porcelain Factories
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1773 - 1782
Materials
Ceramics, soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
Place of origin
Derby
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730648.1
Summary
Three coffee cups, soft paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, Derby Porcelain Factories, Derby, England, circa 1773-1782, from a partial tea service comprising: three coffee cups, seven saucers, and one tea bowl. Decorated with a geometric border in ultramarine blue and gold and gold flowers. Marked with a crowned 'D' in puce.
Provenance
Listed in the ‘Inventory of Heirlooms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart.’, 1838, in the China Cupboard, as ‘Eight Van Dyke blue and gold handled Coffee Cups and Saucers 10 Tea Cups & 10 Saucers 2 plates.' Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Derby Porcelain Factories, manufacturer