1231

1231m

1231a

1231c

Cup — CRC# 1231

Description
A Bristol ogee shaped coffee cup, from the Chough Service, with harebell-moulded and gilt-decorated handle, painted with a bird crest, with leaves in its beak, probably for Tothill of Peamore, Devon, within oval cartouches, and with sepia profile medallions, united by laurel swags, within gilt tooled, leaf and dentil bands, circa 1774-75, blue painted X marks. See F S Mackenna, Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, page 68, plate 27, for a plate from this service.
Service
Chough
Size
6.5cm diameter at rim, 7cm high
Condition
Perfect
Mark
Blue X
Mark Group
X
Decorator
No mark
Labels
Fulford Collection
Historic Provenance
Fulford Collection, Creed Collection
CRC#
1231
Type
Cup

1231b

1231d

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