Covered cup

Status

Not on view

Date1783-1788

Maker Nast porcelain factory (French, 1783 - 1835)

Geography Made - France

Medium/TechniquePorcelain (possibly hard-paste), gilt

DimensionsOverall (Width with handle, diameter of rim): 2 1/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. x 2 1/2 in. (5.4 cm x 7.94 cm x 6.35 cm) Overall (Diameter of foot): 1 11/16 in. x 1 11/16 in. (4.29 cm x 4.29 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, 1956

Object numberW-2134/A

DescriptionTapered cylindrical cup with an attached squared-off handle, rectangular in section, on an incurved pedestal foot. Gilded bands around rim, base of cup, and foot; handle picked out in gold with dots and sprigs along its top. Inside of rim unglazed.

One of two cups, W-2134/A&B.

Alternate names for this form include: gravy cup (pot à jus), custard cup (pot de crème).

Published ReferencesCarol Borchert Cadou, The George Washington Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts at Mount Vernon (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 2006), 148, cat. 42.

Susan Gray Detweiler, "The Ceramics," Antiques 135, no. 2 (February 1989): 498, 500.

Susan Gray Detweiler, George Washington's Chinaware (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1982), 119-34.

Mount Vernon China (Mount Vernon, VA: MVLA, 1962), 29-34.

William Armstrong, "Some New Washington Relics. I. From the Collection of Mrs. B.W. Kennon," The Century Magazine 40/1 (May 1890): 20.

MarkingsOverglaze factory mark stenciled on underside (in red) is illegible.

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