Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and high slightly curving sides flaring slightly at the lip-rim, scroll handle; decorated with to the exterior sodes a conventional lotus pattern of wide scrolling bands of a puce diaper pattern edged in gilt against a background of vertical spiral lines in puce and gilt, scattered floral sprays and sprigs intermingled into the design, a gilt edge to the lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Mainz, Germany
Period: 1750-1755
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
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Techniques
Wheel-thrown
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Press-moulded
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Enamelled
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Gilded
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Glazed
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Material
Hard-paste porcelain