- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Porcelain lid for a tea cup 1944.5.18 .3 .1. [MOBB [OPS move] 20/04/2016]
- Long description
- Porcelain lid for a tea cup. This lid is painted orange with white foliage and Chinese characters on the exterior and glazed white on the interior. There is a seal script stamped maker's mark in the handle. The cup associated with this lid is 1944.5.18 .3 .1. [MOBB [OPS move] 20/04/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Marc Aurel Stein
- PRM source The Estate of Marc Aurel Stein
- PRM source Helen Mary Allen
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906-1908
- Date collected
- By 1906 - 1908
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Porcelain Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Glazed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 91 mm, Height: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.5.18.3.2 Other PRM accession number: 1944.5.18c
- Research and responses
One letter in the PRM manuscripts collection (Penniman Papers) from Stein which might explain his connection to the PRM. It is written to the curator of the time, Mr Penniman, dated June 6 1937: "22 Manor Place, Oxford. Dear Mr Penniman, I remember with pleasure our meeting at Kish in January 1929 and am glad to know you are now looking after anthropology here. It would have been a satisfaction to me to be of some little help to your future pupil as regard to his proposed visit to Lazistan. But I have never been anywhere near that tract(?) on the Black Sea and not knowing in what direction his interests lie I do not think that I could give any useful hints within the very limited time just now at my disposal, anyhow by writing. I have returned from a long journey in Iran and am about to seek some needful rest in the Cotswolds. But later on I hope for a chance of seeing you again. Yours sincerely, A. Stein. " [AS 10/12/2009]
Search terms: Food and Drink, Vessel, Pottery, Tea Accessory, Lid, Food Accessory