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Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim, rounded sides and plain loop handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior sides a landscape with an exotic bord perched on a tree, three small insects and five festoons of flowers tied at the top with blue ribbons, to the interior of the cup a green sprig, a gilt edge to the 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 landscape with an exotic bird perched in a tree and three small insects, around the sides of the well five festoons of flowers as on the cup, a gilt edge to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36582
Creation/Production
Nymphenburg State Factory
Date: 1765-1770
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.2
diam
(cm): 7.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 12.7
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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