Object Number: N8508

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: coffee cup

Description: Flared London shape with scroll-moulded rim and foot edge; the lower part of body moulded with narrow panels, moulded scroll-edged cartouche opposite handle; 3-C-scroll handle with spurs. Painted in onglaze coloured enamels and gilding (pattern number 5564): green ground with all-over gilt scrolls surrounding reserve painted with a yellow ?ranunculus, blue-edge convolvulus,etc, and two butterflies (black-edged with and yellow and orange and orange-spotted black with blue) on buff ground; gilt surround, and detailing moulded panels, on rims and handle, gilt band and leaf meander inside rim.