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Cup, coffee
Coffee cup, soaprock porcelain, short foot-rim, high curving sides and ridged loop handle; transfer-printed in underglaze blue with around the exterior sides a variant of the 'Birds in a Tree' pattern, to one side of the cup two birds are perched in the spreading branches of a tree, to the other side of the cup is a secondary print with two birds in flight over a small landscape.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 37133
Creation/Production
Caughley
Date: 1775-1785
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.5
diam
(cm): 5.7
Width
(cm): 7.5
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 2
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soaprock porcelain
Location
In store
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