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Your Price: $ 10.00
Item Number: 1223
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Manufacturer: Coalport China
A lovely demitasse cup made by Coalport, England as part of their Kings Ware line in the Canton pattern. We are making available in this listing just one demitasse cup without a saucer. You will also see separately listed two complete cup & saucer sets (each sold individually). The cup available here is an extra cup. All of these pieces came out of the same home of a relative, who had received them years ago from another relative. All pieces are marked on the underside bases with the Coalport Porcelain Works crown and the words, "Coalport, England, A.D. 1750., Kings Ware, Canton." Based on this mark, these pieces were made between about 1891 and 1920. The Coalport Company, which is in Shropshire, England, is now part of the Wedgwood Group of china manufacture.
While referred to as china, these pieces are not porcelain as they are not translucent. They are pottery pieces or may be what is referred to as soft paste pieces, we are not sure. The base pottery color is white, appearing a bit off-white rather than a bright white. They have a lovely intricate black line pattern with hand-painted multi-colored highlights in red, green, blue and yellow and a hand-painted light brown line trim on the outer edge of the saucer and on the top rim and handle of the cup. The design interweaves flowers and leaves with a geometric motif including a Japanese pagoda-style building. This oriental-reminiscent style is often seen on these Victorian ceramic pieces, which are also referred to as transferware and Aesthetic Movement pieces. The transferware relates to the transferring of the intricate designs (the black line design here) onto the base china/ceramic pieces via a series of dots as one would do in printing, rather than hand-painting the full design. On the underside base of each piece there are some letters and numbers painted in a single color which would indicate to the manufacturer the individual who later applied the hand colored details.
This antique cup is about 2 inches in height, is straight-sided with a top opening diameter slightly wider than the base at 2 inches for the top and 1 7/8 inches for the base. Greatest width from the outside of the curved handle to the opposite side is about 2 3/4 inches. We have provided 6 images to show from all sides and a close-up of the mark. Please note that the white "hot spots" are lighting reflections from the camera on the glossy surface. This lighting also "blands" out the colors a bit, making the base china appear a brighter white than it is in person and the colored highlighting less bold and dramatic than it is in person. This piece looks more lovely in person than we could show with our camera.
This cup is in very nice overall condition but not mint. It has a lot of crazing but no major chips or cracks. It appears to us to have a number of flaws made in the glazing process. On the underside base there is a darker area, a light brown oval section, as shown in one image (the coloring is darker than it appears in the image due to the camera lighting). In this area the glazing is higher or "bumps up" versus the remainder of the underside base, and we think it may be this extra glazing that is making this area appear darker in color, but we don't know that for sure. On the underside base on which the cup sits there is a small raised spot of extra glazing which makes this feel rough when touched with your finger but it is not a chip. There are stray black dots and some black smearing from the transfer process on the cup, with some of this visible as black lines and dots on the interior of the cup and as black dots on the outer handle. There are also some spots of paint or glazing wear on the design, particularly in one large circular black area by a red and a yellow/red flower. To us this appears as uneven glazing in manufacture rather than paint wear, but we don't know this for certain. While you should know these imperfections are there, they are not really bad and do not detract from the beauty or usability of the cup. It is in very nice shape for its age.
If you already have a Coalport Canton demitasse saucer, this cup would nicely complete your set! It could also be displayed well on its own as part of a collection of single cups. |
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