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Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, cup standing on a foot rim, rounded sides sloping inwards at base, twig handle with scroll terminal; decorated in polychrome enamels with `natürliche Blumen', on one side with a mixed bouquet of yellow, purple and iron-red flowers, opposite two sprigs, one a orange flower, one purple, orange flowered sprig to bottom, puce sprig to handle, dentil gilt border to inner lip, gilt highlights to handle and terminal. Saucer, standing on a foot rim, flared sides; decorated in polychrome enamels the centre with a mixed bouquet with a daffodil and pink, iron-red and blue flowers and two purple flowered sprigs, gilt dentil border to lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33508
Creation/Production
Meissen
Date: 1760-1774
Acquisition
Gift, 16/3/1926
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.6
Length
(cm): 10.3
Width
(cm): 8.2
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 4
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 3.3
diam
(cm): 13.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
modelled
forming
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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