Tea cup (part of a partial tea and coffee service)

1790-1820

Measurements

2-1/4 in x 4-1/8 in x 3-3/8 in (dia)

Materials

Transfer-printed soft-paste porcelain

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.757.5

Condition Notes

The tea cup has a stress crack on one side and some staining.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner.  A note in her handwriting on a paper label applied to the underside of a saucer (acc. no. 1971.757.16) states that the tea and coffee service to which the tea cup belongs was acquired by Capt. James Jefferis for his daughter Ann, who married David Wilson Jr.

Comments

This tea cup is part of a partial service of one slop bowl (1971.757.1), three coffee cups (1971.757.2-.4), a tea cup (1971.757.5), thirteen deep saucers (1971.757.6-.18), and four small plates (1971.757.19-.22).  The service is decorated with black transfer-printed designs of "Stately Homes," being images of English country houses and ruins.  This cup shows a large country house among a many-treed landscape on one side and a castle in ruins on the other.  The rim has a thick and a thin gold band around the outside; another gold band runs down the back of the molded handle.