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Title Minton Tea Cup
Reference CC-AR-00314, Box 435
Library University of British Columbia
Collection The Chung Collection
Date c. 1935
Author / Creator Minton
Description Porcelain teacup decorated with the Empress pattern of multi-coloured flowers, vase and birds in an Asian motif on a white body, produced for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line's Trans-Pacific service. The inside of the cup is patterned with pink and orange flowers.
Document Type Object
Theme(s) Travel and Tourism; Arts and Artefacts
Keywords transportation, porcelain, flora and fauna, crockery, tableware, dining, dinner, vessel, voyage, tea, flowers, birds
Additional Information This item forms part of the Wallace B Chung and Madeline H Chung collection. In 1999, the Chung family made this exceptional gift to the University of British Columbia Library. The collection, now housed in UBC's Irving K Barber Learning Centre, contains more than 25,000 rare and unique items (documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artefacts). In making a generous gift of this unique and extensive research collection, Dr Chung gives back to Canada something of what he and his family have gained since his grandfather came from China to settle in Victoria more than 100 years ago. Inspired to start collecting by an illustrated poster of the CP RMS Empress of Asia in his father’s tailor shop in Victoria, Dr Wallace B Chung assembled an extensive research collection of items on early British Columbia history, immigration and settlement, particularly of Chinese people in North America, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The collection is one of the most exceptional and extensive of its kind in North America and has been designated as a national treasure by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board.

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