Josiah Jones and Charles Cartlidge and Company
Stirrup Cup
1847-1855
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Hard-paste porcelain with overglaze gilt decoration, 4 15/16 x 3 9/16 x 3 1/4 in. (12.5 x 9 x 8.3 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Friends of the American Wing in Memory of James M. Easter II
Object Number
2002.39
Stirrup cups filled with punch or spirits were passed around to mounted hunters just before they set off riding to the hounds over field and stream, in pursuit of fox and other wild creatures. The form descends from the rhyton, a ceremonial drinking cup found in multiple Eurasian cultures as early as the Bronze Age, or the 2nd millennium BCE.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; The Stradlings, New York, NY
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
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Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, AMERICAN PORCELAIN, 1770-1920 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989) p.134, No.36.
Barber, Edwin Atlee. Historical Sketch of the Green Point (N.Y.) Porcelain Works of Charles Cartlidge & Co.. Indianapolis, IN: The Clay Worker, 1895. pp. 37-47. ill. 39.
Barber, Edwin Atlee. Historical Sketch of the Green Point (N.Y.) Porcelain Works of Charles Cartlidge & Co.. Indianapolis, IN: The Clay Worker, 1895. pp. 37-47. ill. 39.
Inscribed: RIM, outside, (inscribed in gold), 'American Porcelain'
On View at the BMA
