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Continental footed porcelain cup, Delaware

Joseph S. Potter

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The object is a footed cup. The cup is white with blue and white stripes at the top and bottom. A gold rim is around the top edge. Inside the cup, the rim is gold. The base of the cup is gold and shaped like a stem. A gold oval frame on the cup contains a colorful scene. The scene has a woman on the left in a blue dress and a man on the right in a green uniform. A ship is above them, and an animal is below. Outside the oval frame are gold scroll designs. The background of the image is gray.

Artwork Details

Date
1878–89
Medium
Porcelain with pink ground banded in blue, silver, and gold, the silver banding picked out in black
Culture
American
Dimensions
599 × 538 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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Palette