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Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, inset base and flaring sides, square shouldered handle with ropework moulding; the exterior sides of the cup covered with a dull blue ground and decorated with a gilt caillouté pattern, around the centre of the sides foliate swags in raised gilding, a gilt dot to the interior bottom of the bowl, the handle covered in gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, inset base and flaring sides; the sides of the well covered with a dark underglaze blue ground and decorated with a gilt caillouté pattern, to the centre of the well a circular reserve finely painted with a group of fruit, around the exterior foot-rim a band of gilt dashes.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36404
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1785 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height (cm): 4
diam (cm): 7
Width (cm): 9
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 2.8
diam (cm): 10.8
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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