P148 - DERBY GILT WHITE CUP AND SAUCER

 

Circa 1784, purple crowned crossed baton and D marks

The fluted cup and saucer with dentil rims

Cup: 2 ¾ in. (7 cm) high

Saucer: 5 ½ in. (14 cm) diameter

 

PROVENANCE

M.A.B Collection (paper label printed in black with crowned monogram).

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 199, plate 172, fig. 639 for an example in the Mercer Collection.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

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