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Collection Item: Tea Cup And Saucer
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Object name
- Tea cup and saucer
- Object category
- Ceramic
- Object subcategory
- Factory ceramic
- Creators
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Description
- A Creamware tea cup moulded with a strip of beading around the outside of the rim picked out with gilt. The outside of the cup is painted with swags of leaves and berries in green and red. The bottom of the bowl has a spray of flowers. The saucer is moulded with a strip of beading around the rim picked out in gilt. The well is painted with swags of leaves and berries with a central spray of flowers all in green and red.
- Production date start
- 1780
- Production date end
- 1822
- Period
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2001.2246.a-b
- Alternative number
- BN89
- Number of objects
- 2
- Classification code
- 2.667
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 15002152
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Tea cup height 4.5 cm
- Tea cup diameter 8.0 cm
- Saucer height 2.0 cm
- Saucer diameter 13.4 cm
Production
- Creators
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Location
- Hunslet
- Hunslet
- School/style
- Creamware
