1229
1229m
1229a
1229c
1229e
Cup — CRC# 1229
- Description
- A rare Bristol ogee-shaped coffee cup from the Leinster service, with moulded loop handle, decorated in coloured flower heads with the intial L beneath a gilt ducal coronet, within oval gilt panels, the cup with two grisaille head and shoulder studies of young men, united by green and iron red laurel swags, gilt line, leaf scroll and dentil borders, circa 1775, blue painted X and numeral 3 in gilt.
- Service
- Leinster
- Size
- 6.5cm diameter at rim, 7cm high
- Condition
- Faint hairline crack
- Mark
- Blue X, gilt 3
- Mark Group
- X
- Decorator
- 3
- Decorator (Blue or Gilt)
- Gilt
- Labels
- ECC 1948 No. 519; F.S.Mackenna Collection BRISTOL No. 30; Peter Stephens Collection BRISTOL No. 20
- Historic Provenance
- Collections: FS Mackenna #30, Peter Stephens #20, Fulford collection 78/850 PS; Creed Collection. Exhibited ECC 1948 #519; Albert Amor exhibition of Peter Stephens Collection 1978 #42
- CRC#
- 1229
- Type
- Cup
1229b
1229d
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0167 · 1947
Coffee cup and saucer from the Leinster service, from F. Severne Mackenna's collection
Source: Champion's Bristol Porcelain
H0189 · 1948
ECC 1948 Exhibition
Source: The English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948. English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue
H0191 · 1948
Leinster cup and saucer at the ECC 1948 Exhibition
Source: The English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948. English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue
H0054 · 1975
Leinster service coffee cup and saucer, No. 30 from the Mackenna Collection
Source: The FS Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain vol 3 Plymouth & Bristol
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A rare Bristol ogee-shaped coffee saucer, from the Leinster service, decorated in coloured flower heads with the intial L beneath a gilt ducal coronet, within oval gilt panels, the cup with two grisaille head and shoulder studies of young men, united by green and iron red laurel swags, gilt line, leaf scroll and dentil borders, circa 1775, blue painted X and numeral 3 in gilt.
