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Derby |
 Bute cups were made in Derby from the 1780s. They
usually have a painted puce or red crown mark, often with the pattern
number underneath. There
are four styles: teabowls with no handle;
cups with narrow or wide simple loop handles, or
squashed ring handles; and breakfast cups with
loop handles with a dent.
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| Teabowls with no handle |
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| Derby also made faceted, Hamilton flute shaped teabowls without handles (example in British ceramic gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum). |
| Derby teabowl with no handle and fine inclined reeding. Puce mark and pattern 129 on the base. Number 9 or 6 also impressed near bevelled side of base recess. Neat potting in creamy body with slightly straw transparency. (aj107, h54, w76.5, b36.8 ) |
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| Derby teabowl with no handle with puce mark and pattern 386 on the base. (a038, h61, w77.5, b36) |
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| Simple Loop handles with pointed top attachment |
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| This maker marked wares with a handpainted crown mark in Puce on earlier cups and in red on later ones. Normal sized bute cups have a simple loop handle with pointed attachments in two shapes, type 1 wide (over 10mm at top, see left), and type 2 thinner (~8mm at top, see right). Some bute cups also had a 7-shaped handle (see Victoria and Albert Museum C308-1922). |
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| Derby cup with a simple, wide, type 1 "loop" handle. Base marked with: crown, crossed batons, D and 544 in puce, and impressed O near rim. (aj093, h62, w78, b36.8 handle: h14.7, v35.4, w11, 6.8) |
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| Derby cup with a simple, wide, type 1 "loop" handle with V-shaped top and bottom attachments. Base marked with: crown, crossed batons, D and 72 in puce. (a089 ) |
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| Derby cup with a simple, wide, type 1 "loop" handle. Base marked in puce with crown, crossed batons, D and 386. (a098 ) |
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| Derby cup with a simple, wide, type 1 "loop" handle with v-shaped attachments. Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D and 552 in puce. (a093) |
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| Derby cup with a simple, narrow, type 2 "loop" handle with v-shaped attachments. Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D and 600 in puce. (a086) |
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| Derby cup with a simple, narrow type 2 "loop" handle. Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D and 690 in red. (aj181, h61.2, w78, b34.5 handle: h16.2, v38.7, w8.2, 4.7) |
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| Derby cup with a simple but very generous "loop" handle. This is very unusual. Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D in puce. (a099 ) |
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| Ring handles |
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| Large round ring handles which are flattened in section, with the part next to the cup straight as if squashed onto the cup. May have the usual red Derby mark or be unmarked. |
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| Derby cup with a large "ring" handle which is flattened against the cup ( slightly flattened in section). Base marked with crown, crossed batons, and D in red. (a066, picture J. Bachmann) |
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| A cup with a large "ring" handle which is flattened against the cup ( slightly flattened in section). No mark but possibly a Derby maker. (aj136, h59.4, w77.4, b34.5, handle: v22.7, h16, w8, 5.8) |
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| Simple Loop handles with dent |
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| Loop handles with pointed attachments with a dent in the lower part. Nearly round in section. Found on larger breakfast cups. May have the usual puce or red Derby mark. |
| Derby breakfast cup with a "loop" handle with a slight "dent". Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D in puce. (aj401, h65.6, w93.8, b47.5 (53.2), handle: h16.2 (23.7), v36.3, w8.1, 5.6, t5.9 ) |
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| Derby breakfast cup with a "loop" handle with a slight "dent". Base marked with crown, crossed batons, D and 26 in red. (aj037, h65.2, w91.6, b49.2, handle: h15.6, v34.2, w7.4, 5.6 ) |
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| Derby large breakfast cup with a "loop" handle with a slight "dent". Base marked with crown, crossed batons, and D in red. (aj036, h70.3, w106.1, b55, handle: h18.9, v39.5, w7.4) |
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