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Shah of Persia teacup

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• Museum number

  1708

• Description

  tea cup with green ground and full coloured portrait medallion framed in flat gold. The portrait of a bearded man bedecked in jewellery is of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar who ruled over Persia from 1798 until 1834.Inscribed under the base, Futteh Ali Shah, King of Persia.

• Date made

  1825

• Material

  Soft paste porcelain

• Factory mark

  Flight, Barr & Barr

• Mark type

  hand written script

• Provenance/assession

  From the Works Museum Collection

• Height

  2 1/2 inches