Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Butterfly" pattern. Cup has nearly spherical shape and an applied foot ring. Decorated band of dark blue inside lip. Flower inside bottom. Outside as red butterfly set against elaborate floral design. Opposite side has a red flower above a decorated dark blue form.
12/12/2022: only cup
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Butterfly" pattern. Cup has nearly spherical shape and an applied foot ring. Decorated band of dark blue inside lip. Flower inside bottom. Outside as red butterfly set against elaborate floral design. Opposite side has a red flower above a decorated dark blue form.
12/12/2022: Only cup
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Double Rose" pattern. Cup has nearly spherical shape and an applied foot ring. Decorated band of dark blue inside lip. Flower inside bottom. Outside has reddish flowers and dark blue and green leaves. All sides have elaborate floral designs.
12/12/2022: only cup
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Double Rose" pattern. Cup has nearly spherical shape and an applied foot ring. Decorated band of dark blue inside lip. Flower inside bottom. Outside has reddish flowers and dark blue and green leaves. All sides have elaborate floral designs.
Only cup (12/12/2022)
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Adams Rose" pattern dominated by a large red flower as well as other flowers and leaves. Inside lip are two fine lines of rust. Cup has nearly straight sides, and attenuated base on an applied foot ring.
(B) Saucer has offcenter red flower surrounded by other flowers and leaves. Double line border at top of inside.
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
(A) Cup has curved sides and foot ring. Sides dominated by one large orange/red flower composed of round clusters set atop a dark blue form. Additional flowers and leaves around sides. Wide band inside lip has small clusters of the same flower.
(B) Saucer of same pattern
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain handleless teacup (A) and saucer (B), Gaudy Dutch "Adams Rose" pattern dominated by a large red flower as well as other flowers and leaves. Inside lip are two fine lines of rust. Cup has nearly straight sides, and attenuated base on an applied foot ring.
(B) Saucer (5 3/4" dia.) has offcenter red flower surrounded by other flowers and leaves. Double line border at top of inside.
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Small teacup (A) and saucer (B), white-bodied china. (A) Round teacup has scalloped base including four projecting feet. Rises with an inward curve before curving outward at lip.decorated with applied dark blue petals flanking a circle of applied light blue-painted flowers centering in gold-stampled lettering: " Souvener/ of/ Lancaster/ Pa." Body has molded flowers embossed around top and branch-like handle applied at side. Gold painted trim on one side of handle, the lip, and applied flowers as well as three stamped flowers at each side.
(B) Saucer (4 3/4" dia.) has embossed foliate design on top; small foot ring. Gold painted line on outer edge and inner line circle at central depression. Does not match teacup and may be a later addition.
(A) Teacup stamped on bottom with a crown over a shield with the monogram of "TGC"(?). Impressed nearby is a number, possible "1912" or "1917". (B) Saucer is stamped "MADE IN GERMANY" within a circle. The number "50" is stamped in gold.
Provenance
Donor believes this set was purchased at Woolworth's store in Lancaster.
(A) Cup has nearly spherical shape and sits on a foot ring. Inside under rim is a wide band of pink with crosshatching puncutated by 4 evenly spaced sections containing sprigs of either leaves and flower or leaves and berry. Red flower sprig inside bottom.
(B) Saucer
only cup: 12/12/2022
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
A: (Cup) Purple transfer print with inside border. There's an Asian scene on the bottom center of cup with two people in the left foreground and a man on an elephant is behind them on the right. Water with buildings and mountains in background. On the exterior border: 2 scenes, both the same, with elephant, rider and two men standing in front of the elephant. Floral border on bottom outside edge. Stickers on back: "SD/#50" and "H 268."
B: (Saucer) Top edge is bordered with three scenes, all the same, with elephant, rider and two men standing in front of the elephant. Center is edged in floral print around scene with two people in the left foreground and a man on an elephant is behind them on the right. Water with buildings and mountains in background.