Coffee Cup
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1755-56
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.129
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an Early Worcester Chinoiserie Coffee Cup. Painted possibly outside of the factory in a famille-rose palette with a Chinese boy wearing a turquoise jacket and puce trousers and running with his arms outstretched toward a long-necked exotic bird perched on an iron-red zigzag fence beneath flocks of tiny birds, the reverse with a willow tree growing from precipitious blue rocks beside the grooved loop handle.ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
