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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and cylindrical sides curving inwards towards the bottom, plain loop handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the cup a herdsman watching over a sheep and an ox drinking in a stream, two gilt sprigs to the rest of the exterior sides, a gilt edge to the lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the well an ox, a donkey and a sheep in a landscape, three small gilt sprigs scattered around the sides of the well, a gilt edge to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36378
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1770-1775
Acquisition
Gift, 2/6/1920
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.7
diam
(cm): 6.7
Width
(cm): 8.7
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 13.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
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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