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Chocolate Cup and Saucer, “Kempthorne” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.169

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 6

DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Kempthorne" pattern chocolate cup (A) and saucer (B). Each piece is ogee shaped and painted in an expanded Imari palette of underglaze-blue, iron-red, green, and gilding around the exterior of thesaucer and interior of the chocolate cup.There are flowering plants growing from a gilt herringbone-patterned underglaze blue border or roundel interrupted with iron-red demi-flowerhead panels repeated as a border around the scalloped and barbed rim. The sides of the cup have scroll handles. There are pseudo-Chinese seal marks in underglaze blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II