Cup — CRC# 1232

Description

A Bristol tea cup from the Plumer Service, with initial P in pink roses and gilt, within a tooled oval gilt panel, and with grisaille portrait medallions, within green, iron red and gilt laurel and leaf scroll borders, gilt dentil rims, circa 1774-75, blue painted X marks. See F S Mackenna, Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, number 29, for the sucrier and cover from this service

Service

Plumer

Size

7.5cm diameter at rim, 5cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark

Blue X

Mark Group

X

Decorator

No mark

Historic Provenance

Provenance: from the service made for William Plumer MP, member of parliament for Hertford for forty years; Creed Collection

CRC#

1232

Type

Cup

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