Period: Late Victorian
Maker: T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co.
Shooting and angling became popular pursuits in Victorian Britain. The front of this unusual cup by Brown-Westhead, Moore shows a pair of grouse game birds, painted in gold paste against an enamelled background of bracken. On the reverse is a vignette of an upland landscape. The saucer shows a lakeside scene. Gold paste is used to paint a person fishing from a boat, and the trunk of the tree. The rest of the landscape is hand-painted in coloured enamels.
The thinness and translucency of the cup almost equals Japanese eggshell porcelain.
As with most Brown-Westhead, Moore porcelains, the cup and saucer are only marked with a letter-prefixed pattern number. K1079 indicates a date around 1882.
Condition: Perfect
Cup Height: 5.8 cm; Rim diameter: 7.1 cm Saucer Diameter: 14 cm
Weight: 136 g
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
See Brown-Westhead, Moore & Cauldon in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
