Tea cup and saucer

Date1752-1758

Artist/Maker Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (1745-1769)

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsH: 4 3/8"; DIam: 3 1/8"; DIam + handle: 3 5/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1968-103,A

DescriptionDeep reeded cup with scalloped edge; molded scroll-loop handle; decorated in polychrome with fable of "The Lioness and The Fox": figures in profile facing one another, the lioness to the left in front of a palm tree, dead tree and rocks in red to left of scene on opposite side of cup; brown line around edge.
Label TextThe painted fables "The Lion and the Frog" and "The Lioness and the Fox" can perhaps be attributed to Jefferyes Hammett O'Neale due to their similarity to a cream jug in the CWF collection (accession 1967-70) and other pieces attributed to him. The design source for "The Lion and the Frog" is unknown. The Croxall design is quite different, and the fable does not appear in Barlow at all. The fable "The Lioness and the Fox" is illustrated in both volumes, but neither appears to be the design source.
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