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Sugar box

Meissen

Sugar box with cover, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a foot rim, squat, elongated, octagonal body with bulging sides, domed cover with pagoda-shaped finial; sides decorated alternately with sprays of flowers and fish in iron-red monochrome, two concentric lines to shoulders, geomentric border to cover with four ellipses, panels of foliate decoration to upper half, bottom of inside decorated with asymetrical shape (perhaps a bird).

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33255

Creation/Production

Meissen
Date: 1725 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.6
Length (cm): 12
Width (cm): 9
Height (in): 2
Length (in): 4
Width (in): 3

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain

Location

Front Hall, North Balcony : Case J

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Categories

Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art
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