| Maker(s): | Wedgwood, Josiah
| | Culture: | English (1759-2005)
| | Title: | coffee cup
| | Date Made: | 1805-1815
| | Type: | Food Service
| | Materials: | ceramic: lead glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware), underglaze cobalt blue enamel, transfer print; overglaze iron-orange enamel, gilding
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire; Etruria
| | Measurements: | overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/16 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm x 5.23875 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 0913.11
| | Credit Line: | Gift of John B. Morris, Jr.
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English pearlware straight-sided coffee cup with a "9" style handle, one of a 35-piece teaset manufactured by the Wedgwood Factory, decorated in red, blue, orange, and gilding. Some of these pieces are impressed with the "WEDGWOOD" mark on the base. The design is an interpretation of an Imari pattern (a style originating in Japan and copied by the Chinese), popular in the early 19th century and being produced by the English porcelain companies, notably at Derby and Worcester. The Wedgwood factory produced a long series of patterns, based on these "japonaiseries" designs being produced on porcelain, primarily on earthenwares (creamware, pearlware and whiteware)) although at least 8 of the "Japan" patterns designed for earthenware were transferred to bone china of the first period (1812-1828). This pattern may be pattern #26 or #21.
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