Name/Title
Cup and Saucer - owned by Louisa Bull C 1843Entry/Object ID
100080Tags
Louisa Bull, Mary Adelaide PostScope and Content
(AI) What you are looking at is a beautiful piece of mid-19th-century hand-painted porcelain, complete with meticulous family provenance.
The Artifact: Cup & Saucer
The Design: This set is decorated in a style heavily influenced by European porcelain (such as French Sèvres or English Staffordshire/Rockingham) from the 1830s and 1840s. It features intricate, raised gilt (gold leaf) scrollwork, a deep cobalt blue border, and delicate hand-painted floral sprays (including a prominent pink dahlia or aster inside the cup).
The Shape: The wide, flared rim of the teacup and the deep, well-like center of the saucer are classic mid-Victorian traits. At the very bottom left of the photo, you can also catch a glimpse of what looks like a small porcelain basket with delicate molded "forget-me-not" style flowers. value ?
Brown's Inventory Lowstoft teacup wothout handle and a deep saucer. This cup and saucer belonged to Louisa Bull, daughter born in 1807 to Daniel and Sarah Harlow Bull (This cup has been mended)