Description:
Chinese export porcelain coffee cup, part of a 61-piece set, with a lightly fluted body, C-shaped ribbed handle, and scalloped rim decorated in brown, blue, iron-red, black, and gilding. The set belonged to the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), a lawyer, diplomat, and senator from New York, which descended through his family to the Gouverneur M. Phelps (1878-1954) family of Ashfield, Massachusetts. The decoration includes a variety of Chinese landscapes in sepia brown with mountains, figures, riverscapes, houses, and trees in a gilt-outlined oval reserve opposite the handle, which were probably done by more than one painter. The scalloped rim has a gilt band outlined in black around the rim edge with alternating blue flower heads and red crosses over a row of small red pyramid shapes, over a scalloped blue band outlined in gilt.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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