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Culture:English
Title:teacup and saucer
Date Made:1790-1810
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), overglaze polychrome enamels
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire or Yorkshire
Measurements:overall: cup: 2 x 3 3/8 in.; 5.08 x 8.5725 cm; saucer: 1 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.
Accession Number:  HD 57.261
Credit Line:Gift of Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English pearlware teacup and deep saucer decorated with floral sprays in light and dark pink, orange, green, and red. The cup interior is edged with a band of red dots between two red lines; over a band of reserves with dark pink trelliswork on a pink ground, alternating with either three stylized orange sprigs or orange, pink and green floral spray; and a floral spray in the well. The cup exterior rim has a intertwined band of a single and a wavy line over two floral sprays. The saucer rim is edged with a band of red dots between two red lines; over a band of reserves with dark pink trelliswork on a pink ground, alternating with either three stylized orange sprigs or orange, pink and green floral spray; and around the well, a band of a single and a wavy line with a floral spray in the center.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome

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