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Coffee cup and saucer

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1860-1880

GUSN

GUSN-21975

Description

Coffee cup and saucer. Minton dessert set w/ orange banding and gilt edge; Gothic style orange band below ribbed orange band around rim; foliated scroll handles on handled items.

Details

Descriptive Terms

coffee cups
saucers (plates)
glazing (coating)
painting (coating)
porcelain
tin (metal)
Porcelain
Painted
Tin Glazed
CUP AND SAUCER

Inscription

Painted on bottom: ""6/ 9292""

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Possibly Minton (Maker)

Location of Origin

Stoke-on-Trent, England, Staffordshire

Dimensions

3.25 x 4.625 (HxW), 3.75 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.699.34AB

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