Shape Number: 692
Height: 25.5cm
Covered cup of bone china painted with grotesques, term figures, foliage, festoons and scrollwork in the manner of a French Renaissance tazza painted on copper from Limoges. The cover is domed with an onion-shaped knop and the stepped-profile tazza bowl is supported by an urn-shaped stem on a domed foot. The form resembles Limoges tazze made by the Jean Court dit Vigier and Pierre Reymond workshops and Limoges enamelling revival forms made by Sevres in 1850s. Signed ‘SL’ for Stephen Lawton, painter, and gilded.
The shape drawing is from The Minton Archive.