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CUP FROM A TEA SET

Creator(s): Spode Ceramic Works (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage


About this object

The tea set consists of one cake plate, eleven cups, eight saucers, six plates, and one slop bowl. The ground is white with a design in yellow outlined in gold. The rims of the plates and saucers show six panels filled with a symbol similar to the Hippocratic symbol of a staff with a snake. These are separated by leaf motifs. The shapes are simple and the cake plate has two handles.

Object name:
CUP FROM A TEA SET
Made from:
Porcelain
Made in:
Stoke, England
Date made:
ca. 1772
Size:
7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
26.170.18
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
Credit line:
Gift of Mrs. Augustus Riggs, 1974