New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Teabowl and Saucer

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770-75

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions3 in. (7.6 cm)
4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.101.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a Pair of 'The Tea Party, No. 2' Pattern 'Warmstry Fluted' Teabowls and Saucers. Each printed in lilac with a scene by Robert Hancock. The tea table is less elaborate than L2005.10.99-.100, the teabowls printed on the reverse with 'The Maid and Page, No. 1' depicting a lady and a young blackamoor strolling in a landscape, and in the center with a swimming swan, the barbed rim of each edged in gilding. Pseudo-Chinese seal marks in underglaze-blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II