Cup — CRC# 1404

Description

An extremely fine Bristol cylindrical cabinet cup with elaborate ‘C ’scroll handle moulded with leaves and husks, superbly painted in coloured enamels with swags of flowers, and roundels of pink roses suspended from blue ribbons, within gilt leaf scrolls, circa 1775, blue painted X marks and numeral 3. in gilt.

Size

6.5cm diameter, 6.8cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark

Blue X3. gilt

Mark Group

X

Decorator

3

Decorator (Blue or Gilt)

Gilt

Labels

ECC 1948 No 523, FS Mackenna Collection Bristol No 92, Peter Stephens Collection Bristol No 13, Albert Amor

Historic Provenance

Provenance; F Severne Mackenna Collection; Peter Stephens Collection. Vanessa Stevenson collection. Illustrated: Antique Collector, January-February 1940; Apollo, April 1944 and June 1945; ECC Loan Exhibition Catalogue, 1948, plate 114; F S Mackenna, Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, figure 92. Exhibited: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, May 1947; ECC Loan Exhibition, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1948, number 523.

CRC#

1404

Type

Cup

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1404b

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1404d