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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and high slightly curving sides flaring slightly at the rim, double curved scroll handle with a moulded leaf at the terminal; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the cup a landscape with ruins, two scattered floral sprigs to the rest of the exterior sides, a gilt edge to the lip-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 a small classical building and large rocks, around the sides of the well four scattered floral sprigs, a gilt edge to the rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36383
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1750-1796
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.8
diam
(cm): 6.3
Width
(cm): 7.9
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 3.7
diam
(cm): 13.1
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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