A very rare Zachariah Boreman decorated Paris porcelain teacup

A very rare London-decorated Paris porcelain teacup circa 1800 painted in Derby style by Zachariah Boreman at the Sims workshop in London.

There are a few pieces from this tea service that surface from time to time, one cup and saucer sold at Bonhams London in 2009 for £500.

Each cup is painted with an oval landscape scene which is named on the bottom of the cup in a fine red hand, the scenes are from all over Britain.

This cup is decorated with a landscape of a beach and is titled 'near Cheswick' which is a town in Northumberland in the North of England Near Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The scene depicts water with houses on the shore and some people on what looks like a sandy beach.

There is a man in a small boat with some cargo under a tarpaulin on the water.  The buildings reflect in the water, across the water is distant land with trees and mountains in the mists. 

The sky is particularly well painted with fine and subtle colouration.

Wide gilded neoclassical borders surround the landscape image, and the rim and handle are gilded. 

A fabulous quality cup decorated by one of the best landscape painters on china of his time, and on high quality hard white french porcelain.  Certainly from a very high class commissioned service.  


Footnotes
Sometime after leaving Derby in 1794, Boreman went to London and worked for the Sims workshop. See David Manchip, Encyclopaedia of British Ceramic Painters, Gilders and Modellers, p 64.



Makers marks:
None:  Scene name hand written in red on the base

Dimensions:  75mm diameter at rim 58mm tall

Weight:
105 g

Age:
225 years

Condition:
Good:  Some rubbing of the gilding particularly at the rim and handle.  A hairline at the back close to the handle.

Maker:
French hard paste porcelain decorated in London by Zachariah Boreman