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Handless Teacup

Dateca. 1800

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH: 2"; OD: 3 1/2".

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

Object number2024-70

DescriptionCup: handless teacup on short foot ring; decorated with an exterior border of a purple doted orange-red wavy line; a basket of flowers painted in orange-red, pink, purple, and green on the front and three flower sprigs evenly spaced around the exterior; the interior rim with a purple dot border between two orange-red lines; the well of the cup painted with a stylized flower sprig.
ProvenanceDescended in the Tucker 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 in 2024.