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Wine Cup

Dateca. 1710

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH; 2 7/8"; OD: 3 3/8".

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edna G. Tucker and Ms. Wendy S. Tucker in memory of Edward Bolton (Teddy) Tucker, M.B.E.

Object number2024-64

DescriptionCup: wine cup or chocolate cup of elongated slightly flared shape on a short foot. Decorated in underglaze blue with four lotus-leaf shaped panels each with a blossoming prunus branch, the negative space between the top of the panels with six trefid scallops evenly spaced on a blue ground; the interior rim with a hatched border; the well of the cup painted with a central stylized flower; the underside of the foot with a beribboned lozenge within concentric blue lines.
ProvenanceDescended in the Tucer families of New York and Bermuda. Passed down to Catharine Fitch Tucker [February 28, 1879-August 22,1970] of Paget, Bermuda, who gifted the piece to her nephew, Edward Bolton (Teddy) Tucker, MBE [May 8, 1929-June 9, 2014]; it then descended to his daughter Wendy Susan Tucker who subsequently gifted it to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA in 2024.