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Cup, coffee
Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical shape, standing on a flat base, tall, straight sides, angular handle, two borders of moulded spheres and lobes around lip and around foot; decorated in raised relief scenes painted with polychrome enamels, on one side with two naked figures and a dog, a tree in the centre, plants either side, opposite two figures seated in a landscape, one a female wearing pink clothes and reading from a book, the other a child behind her, sides also decorated with five different scattered sprigs, five insects, one pink flowered spray and a single leaf, gilt concentric circle to foot rim, gilt dentil border to lip, gilding to handle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33619
Creation/Production
Meissen
Date: 18th century (late)
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.8
Length
(cm): 8.7
Width
(cm): 6.7
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 2
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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