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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; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the cup a donkey and two sheep in a landscape, scattered gilt sprigs around the exterior sides and the interior bottom of the cup, 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 a donkey loaded with paniers by the side of a stream, scattered gilt sprigs around the sides of the well, a gilt edge to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36370
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1770-1775
Acquisition
Gift, 2/6/1920
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.4
diam
(cm): 7.6
Width
(cm): 9.2
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 12.3
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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