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American with a sweetmeat dish, by the du Paquier Factory

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An image of American with a sweetmeat dish. Du Paquier, Claudius Innocentius (Austrian ceramist, d.1751); Eberlein, Johann Friedrich, after (German, 1696-1749). Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts and assembled, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, mauve, orange-red, and black enamels, and gilt. The closed base is unglazed and pierced by seven small ventilation holes, and the rims of the bowl and cover are unglazed, height 21.5cm, width 13.4cm, circa 1741-1743. Germany, Saxony, Meissen. Saxony was an independent state at this period.

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American with a sweetmeat dish. Du Paquier, Claudius Innocentius (Austrian ceramist, d.1751); Eberlein, Johann Friedrich, after (German, 1696-1749). Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts and assembled, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, mauve, orange-red, and black enamels, and gilt. The closed base is unglazed and pierced by seven small ventilation holes, and the rims of the bowl and cover are unglazed, height 21.5cm, width 13.4cm, circa 1741-1743. Germany, Saxony, Meissen. Saxony was an independent state at this period.

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  • Accession Number: C.2
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 689 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 142.40kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2008:09:12 20:06:24

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