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Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, purple lustre, and gilding. The tea bowl has an everted rim, and its footring is nmounted in silver-gtilt. The circular saucer has shallow curved sides. The cup is decorated with two panels framed by scrollwork in gold, and in iron-red and purple enamel. Both contain a Chinoiserie subject painted in colours: on one, two Chinese men are cooking; in the other, two Chinese men stand beside a table and a pot on a stove. Inside there are 'Indian' flowers and rocks within two iron-red concentric circles. Elaborate gold scrollwork encircles the rim. The saucer is decorated in the middle with a larger panel, similarly framed, with the addition of purple lustre, and is painted in colours with a King observing a seated female lutist from behind a curtain. Elaborate gold scrollwork encircles the rim. On the back, there are three iron-red concentric circles.
History note: Unknown before Sir Richard Jessel
Given by Sir Richard Jessel
Method of acquisition: Given (1972-01-20) by Jessel, Richard, Sir
1720s
Frederick Augustus I
Production date:
circa
AD 1725
: previously dated 1725-30
The tea bowl and saucer were once part of a service with three other cups and saucers and a slop basin, C.10A-1972
Decoration
composed of
lustre
enamel
gold
Saucer
Diameter 12.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 7.5 cm
Tea Bowl
Height 4.5 cm
Accession number: C.10B & C-1972
Primary reference Number: 140099
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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