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Pot, chocolate
Chocolate pot, hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical body, curving shoulder and short neck, curving spout with moulded foliage to the underside, to one side of the body, at rightangles to the spout, a handle at a slight angle above the horizontal, the lower part of the handle in porcelain, the upper part in turned wood with a bone acorn to the tip; to one side of the body a finely painted landscape in polychrome enamels featuring architectectural ruins and two small figures, scattered floral sprigs around the rest of the body, the spout and handle picked out in puce and gilt.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36406
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.3
diam
(cm): 9.5
Width
(cm): 26.4
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 10
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
wood
bone
Location
In store
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