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Description:
Coffee cup, part of an English lusterware teaset with 28 pieces, covered with copper lustre and white slip with floral sprays in blue, green, brown, red, pink, orange, purple, and yellow. The set includes: teapot with cover, sugar bowl with cover, creamer, waste bowl, twelve coffee cups and twelve saucers. Its copper lustre decoration is created by applying gold salts to the red earthenware body, where in the heat of the kiln the metal is deposited as a thin layer on the surface.

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

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+56.033.13

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