Tea cup and saucer with Harlem Toile horses vignette

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A bone china yellow cup (a) and blue saucer (b) from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the horses vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. This set of a yellow cup and blue saucer depicts a scene of a young woman in 18th century clothing running in a field with horses. The round smooth-walled cup does not have a foot but sits directly on the saucer. It has a yellow background. The vignette, which wraps around the cup, depicts a woman wearing a dark pink dress running towards the viewer, her skirts pulled up with one hand and one leg extended in the air as she jumps over a log on the ground. Her knee length pantalettes and her shoes are light blue. Running behind her are two horses. A third horse can be seen against a fence in the background.

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