Chocolate cup
Rue Thiroux Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1775 - 1800
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
66 mm (Height); 51 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870896.3
Summary
Three chocolate cups made of hard paste porcelain from the Rue Thiroux factory, Paris. Decorated with a running border pattern consisting of flowers and foliage in enamels and gilding.
Provenance
No documentary evidence of acquisition but by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1878-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted as part of the more important contents in lieu of payment of Estate Duty and transferred to NT in 1957
Makers and roles
Rue Thiroux Porcelain Factory, potters