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Culture:Chinese
Title:coffee cup
Date Made:ca. 1760
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, gilding
Place Made:China
Measurements:overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.0325 cm
Accession Number:  HD 63.121
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Chinese export porcelain coffee cup with a coil handle decorated in the Famille rose palette in pink, purple, green, brown, orange, red, black, and gilding. There are two European scenes, one of a woman leaning against a tree trunk with a young boy seeming to jump up on her on one side of the handle; and the other of a woman wearing a yellow top and pink skirt reaching up to pick grapes from a large scrolling vine running overhead.

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

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