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Worcester 'Sir Joshua Reynolds' Pattern Large Coffee Cup and a Saucer

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.185

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Sir Joshua Reynolds" pattern large coffee cup (A) and saucer (B). Each piece is painted in a Kakiemon palette with two panels of a Chinese pheasant perched on a rock amidst peonies and two panels of peony branches alternating with underglaze blue panels reserved on the cup with a mons and reserved on the saucer with a peony roundel, each surrounded with gilt flowers and foliage. The lower body of the cup and the center of the saucer have an underglaze blue border reserved with a white floral vine enclosing on the saucer a peony sprig. There are pseudo-Chinese marks in underglaze blue. The cup rim is cracked.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II