Cup & Saucer
1815-1830
19th Century
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.91.a&b
An English pearlware cup (a) & saucer (b). They are heavily decorated with painting over the glaze. The design is a floral motif in red, green, yellow and blue. The style is known as gaudyware or gaudy Dutch.