Saucer

Date1760-1780

Artist/Maker Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

MediumPorcelain, soft-paste

DimensionsH: 1 1/8"; Diam: 5 1/8"

Credit LineGift of Mr. Samuel M. Clarke

Object number1993-263,B

DescriptionTeacup and saucer with gray glaze over gray-ish body. Both nearly hemispherical in form with flare to edges. Quite diminutive foot ring. The handle on the cup looped, with slight flare outward at bottom terminal. Gros bleu ground. The saucer with large, round central reserve and the cup with two oval reserves on the body of the cup. All reserves painted similarly with sprays of stylized anemones, peonies, cornflowers, and periwinkles with vine foliage in two colors of green. All reserves bordered with thin band of gilt, from which spring sprays of leaves, wheat, acorns and oak leaves in gilt. The handle with gilt bellflower and drops. The cup slightly out of round.
Inscribedno
MarkingsCrescent in underglaze blue over an incised circle.
ProvenanceHelen McGehee, Philadelphia, June 1979
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clarke (Acc. No. 388)

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