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Production: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain beaker with two handles. Decorated with enamel colours; green, yellow, orange-ish red, plum and black.
Given by Ralph Griffin
Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph
18th century
1715
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1720
Accession number: C.212-1918
Primary reference Number: 140170
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Beaker" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/140170 Accessed: 2022-12-07 22:28:10
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: E.GA.1497.1947
Accession Number: GR.47.1982
Accession Number: E.194.1932
Accession Number: GR.147h.1907
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