Milk cup
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1753
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
100 mm (Height); 115 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771403.1
Summary
Vincennes bleu lapis two-handled bucket shaped cup, or goblet a lait chopine, with matching cover; the two panels gilt with two birds within finely gilded cartouches with trellis and flowering foliage. This is a 'goblet a lait' of the first size which first appeared on 25 December 1752.
Provenance
Part of the Jersey bequest, March 1993
Marks and inscriptions
Interlaced Ls; date letter A for 1753
Makers and roles
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory