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Maker(s):Worcester Porcelain Factory
Culture:English
Title:breakfast cup
Date Made:1755-1765
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: soft-paste porcelain; underglaze cobalt blue enamel
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Worcester
Measurements:overall: 2 in x 4 1/8 in; 5.1 cm x 10.5 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2012.27.12
Credit Line:Gift of Al and Betsy McKee
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Soft-paste porcelain, circular breakfast cup with a wide and deep bowl and applied footrim, which is marked on the underside in underglaze blue with a crescent for the Worcester Porcelain Factory. The handleless bowl is decorated with an underglaze blue painted border of dots within squares that have hatched lines - the effect like a small sunburst - around the exterior rim; and molded in relief around its circumference with reeding.

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