- Museum number
- C126.1
C126.2 - Object
- Chocolate cup and saucer: ‘Royal Lily’ pattern, Worcester Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, about 1785
- Description
- Two-handled chocolate cup and saucer. One of a set of six. Royal Lily pattern. Shaped sides, upper part lobed with wavy edge, scroll loop handles. Painted, the cups with vertical and the saucers with radiating compartments, in each of whiich is a formal design of Lilies, all in underglaze blue. Round the outer and inner rim of saucer is a narrow band of enamel blue with gilt diaper and small scroll pattern, in centre of saucer a circular medallion framed in a similar band and painted with a formal floral design of red and gold; both cup and saucer have brown edging.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- On display?
- No
Further description
- Simple name
- cup
saucer - Subject
- Floral
- Dimensions
- cup: 10.0cm (d) x 7.0cm (h) x 13.0cm (w)
saucer: 4.7cm (h)
Chocolate cup and saucer: ‘Royal Lily’ pattern
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, about 1785
C126
Plants and flowers were a major source of inspiration for the designers of eighteenth-century porcelain. They were painted in underglaze blue, brightly coloured overglaze enamels or gleaming gold. In naturalistic rococo pieces moulded flowers and leaves form decorative finials, handles and even entire objects.
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