Cup and saucer
China
1780-1820
Measurements
Cup, 2-1/2 in x 3 in x 2-1/4 in (dia); saucer, 1-1/4 in x 5-1/8 in (dia)
Materials
Gilded and underglaze blue decorated porcelain
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.723
Inscription
“From Chase / House Annapolis / 1771” is written in ink on a paper label attached to the outside bottom of the saucer.
Condition Notes
The cup is broken in half and held with glue and two staples. Both objects have craquelure in the glaze. The gilding is not original.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner. She attached a paper label to the bottom of the saucer that says the cup and saucer came from the Chase-Lloyd House, built 1769-1774 in Annapolis, Maryland. See “Comments” below for more information.
Comments
The small cup and large saucer have scalloped rims; the cup has molded foliate sprays where the handle attaches. The blue and white decoration depicts a prominent pagoda with Chinese railed fence, an adjoining bridge, and in the distance, a landscape with a building and two distant mountains separated from the foreground by water. Details on the cup and saucer suggest they were painted by different decorators.
The two objects were gilded at a later date along the rim edges and the cup handle. A stylized vine within stringing rings the sidewalls of the saucer and partially covers decoration. A similar ring encircles the top inside of the cup.
Samuel Chase sold his unfinished house to Edward Lloyd IV in 1771. The house remained in the Lloyd family until 1847, when it was sold to a Chase family member. In 1888 it was bequeathed for use as a home for elderly women. Mrs. Warner may have acquired the cup and saucer at about that time.
