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Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and shallow bowl with rounded sides, plain loop handle; decorated in purple monochrome with around the exterior sides a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, a further sprig to the interior bottom of the bowl, around the interior lip-rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers, the handle picked out in purple. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; decorated in purple monochrome with to the well a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, around the rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36362
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1755-1765
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.9
diam
(cm): 7
Width
(cm): 8.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 12.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
extruded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
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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