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White china coffee cup painted with a blue and red flower and pheasant design

Key details

Object number
3.4010
Date
1770 to 1799
On display
Yes

Description

A white china coffee cup, painted in blue and red with a Chinese style pheasant surrounded by flowers. With loop handle. It reportedly belonged to 'Clarinda', Agnes McLehose.

This small coffee cup is a reminder of the social difference between Robert and Agnes (the well-to-do wife of a Glasgow lawyer) and how they met at a genteel tea party in Edinburgh. A similar cup and saucer is located in collection of National Museums of Scotland.


Object information

Acquisition

1914

Material

Measurements

  • Depth: 6(cm)
  • Height: 5.8(cm)
  • Width: 8(cm)

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