P135 - DERBY “SMITH’S BLUE”-GROUND TEACUP

 

Circa 1770, blue crowned D mark

With floral garlands and laurel swags, wishbone handle

1 ¾ in. (4.4 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 199, plate 172, fig. 641.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.

 

NOTES BY CLEO M. AND G. RYLAND SCOTT, JR IN THE LATE 1950’S

This cup has the “Smith” blue