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Tea bowl and saucer
Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea bowl stands on a foot rim, flared body and everted lip, decorated with two gilt and purple lustre cartouches each comprising a kneeling chinoiserie figure, gilt band to lip, bottom with two concentric iron-red lines containing a polychrome landscape. The saucer has a foot rim, spreading body and everted lip, decorated with a gilt and purple lustre cartouche comprising a black man with a bow standing on a riverbed, gilt band and lacing on lip, three concentric, iron-red lines on underside.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33272
Creation/Production
Meissen
Date: 1725 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.5
diam
(cm): 7.2
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 2.1
diam
(cm): 12.7
Height
(in): 13
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
lustred
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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