Worcester 'Warmstry Fluted' Coffee Cup
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770-75
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.148
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Warmstry Fluted" coffee cup painted in a famille-rose palette with a crane eating a gilt fish and perched on a turquoise rock above a flowering plant amidst scattered floral sprigs, the interior with a small floral sprig beneath an iron-red scallop-and-dot border at the gilt-edged rim. There is a pseudo-Chinese seal mark in underglaze blue.ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1770
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1770
