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Culture:Chinese
Title:cup
Date Made:1755-1775
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, polychrome overglaze enamels, gilding
Place Made:China; Jingdezhen
Measurements:overall: 2 3/4 in.; 6.985 cm
Accession Number:  HD 11-W
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Chinese export porcelain cup with "C" shaped handle in green, brown, black, blue, and iron red overglaze enamels and gilding. The side has a linked double shield with coat of arms, ? impaling Fairholm, in the center. Coat of arms partially unidentified. The Fairholm family lived at Chapel-on-Leader in Berwickshire; William Fairholm (d. 1805) had four sons and a daughter, Elizabeth who married Lord James Murray. The rim has an iron-red edged gilt double chain border; there are traces of gilding at edge.

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