Standing cup with ear-shaped handle with gadrooned spine and traces of gilt decoration; border: gold and blue enamel bands and gold loop chain over orange band; gilt cipher "GWA" on shield draped in blue and gold mantel with ribbon and tassles; pair of doves perched on bar hold gold branch in their beaks; whole image ringed in 16 gilt stars.
coffee cups
enameling
gilding
painting (coating)
porcelain
Chinese export
crests (motifs)
Porcelain
Enameled
Painted
Family Crest
Gilded
Chinese Export
CUP, COFFEE
Cipher on body: ""GWA"".
Unknown
China
2.5 (H), 2.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Helen Pettes
1943.615
Title Coffeepot with cover Accession Number 1944.96Ab
Title Coffeepot with cover Accession Number 1944.96Ab
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