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Sucrier with cover
Sucrier, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower bud with a stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to one side of the exterior body of the sucrier and to the top of the cover two groups of domestic birds in landscapes, around the rest of the exterior sides of the sucrier and the top of the cover scattered floral sprigs, around the exterior lip-rim of the sucrier and the rim of the cover a rococo border with a flowered trellis pattern in puce enclosed by a band of yellow scrolls, the flower bud finial painted in violet and green. The sucrier cracked and repaired.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35566
Creation/Production
Ansbach State Factory
Date: 1770-1780
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8
diam
(cm): 9.8
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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