Child's cup and saucer

Item Information

Title:
Child's cup and saucer
Description:
Miniature porcelain cup without handle (a) and saucer (b). Dark blue transfer-printed chinoiserie pattern with scene of three people in boat, pagodas, fence, and willows.
Date:
1830–1840
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
transfer printing
porcelain (material)
cups (drinking vessels)
saucers (plates)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Chinoiserie
Children's food service tools and equipment
Landscape
Pavillion
Willow
Flower
Trellis
People
Boat
Fence
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Cambridge
Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge, Mass.)
Extent:
Cup: 1 3/4 in. (H) Diameter: 2 1/2 in.; Saucer: 1 in. (H) Diameter: 4 1/4 in.
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/16005
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Bequest of Eleanor Bowser
Accession #:
1982.207.9AB
Identifier:
16005