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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim, straight sides curving inwards towards the base and with slightly flaring rim, double scroll handle with a moulded leaf to the shoulder; decorated in purple monochrome with around the exterior sides a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, around the interior lip-rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers, the handle picked out in purple. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; decorated in purple monochrome with to the well a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, around the rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36363
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1755-1765 ca.
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.5
diam
(cm): 6.2
Width
(cm): 8.2
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 3.5
diam
(cm): 14.2
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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