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Beautiful set of 6 antique demitasse Imari cups for John Mortlock. The cups I believe to be by Davenport. The cups feature popular at the time, oriental/Japenese Imari decorations style with Imari color palette (deep blue, red green and gold).
Measure: 1.75”W (not including handle) by 1.75”H
Condition: Some scratches and use related marks. Some wear to gilt and enamels. Minor scabs, firing imperfections and wear on the undersides and the handles. Firing/production related imperfections. Crazing discoloration on two cups (pictured), flea bites and tiny hairline on one of the cups.
Marked with Mortlock mark and no makers mark. This was the time when the name of prestigious retailer was prioritized over makers marks, which considered secondary importance. However, this pattern was made by Davenport.
The Mortlock China Company was a merchandising rather than a manufacturing operation. Considered the most important china retailer in London in the early nineteenth century, it exercised enormous power and influence over the manufacturers, insisting that the products that Mortlocks sold should bear the Mortlock mark rather than that of the original maker. By 1873 Mortlocks were advertising themselves as retailers for Minton following their success at the 1851 Great Exhibition where Mintons won a major prize. Mortlocks also exhibited and indeed William Mortlock himself was on the judging panel. The Mortlock stand featured a Coalport service in the then newly-rediscovered Rose du Barry, a long-lost Sèvres tint which became popular with super-rich nobility, although the Emperor Napoleon III disappointingly ordered his direct from the Coalports. Mortlocks had a stand at the 1873 Exhibition in Vienna.
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