Delftware cup
This cup is decorated with flowers and symbols which imitate Chinese porcelain. It was excavated from a rubbish pit dating from around 1660, and is one of the best examples of Portugese tin-glazed earthenware discovered from Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2117
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryPortuguese tin-glazed earthenware
- Common Name
- delftware cup
- Simple Name
- cup
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1640
- Production Year High
- 1660
