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Cup and saucer
Cup, hard-paste porcelain, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, cylindrical sides, double-curved scrolled loop handle with foliate moulding to the shoulder; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the exterior body of the cup a rustic landscape with a stream, two walking figures and buildings, the handle picked out in puce. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the centre of the well a rustic landscape with a rabbit crouching among undergrowth by the side of a stream, a brown edge to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35492
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1765-1775
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.5
diam
(cm): 5.6
Width
(cm): 7.5
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 12.8
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
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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