Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and decorated with painting in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark purple, red, and black enamels, purple lustre, and gilding. The pear-shaped pot has a projecting lip, a scroll handle, and a low foot. Its high domed cover has a hole to emit steam, and a conical button knob. On each side there is a panel framed by scrollwork in gold with small areas of lustre, iron-red and purple enamel, and with panels of trellis diaper pattern. Within each panel there is a polychrome Chinoiserie scene. One shows two Chinese figures, one stirring a large bowl over a fire, beside a vase of flowers. The other has a man cooking, watched by another standing holding a banner, and a smaller figure with a basket. There are 'Indian' flowers in the spaces between the panels, and down the back of the handle. There is a gold band round the foot, touches of gold on the handle, and elaborate gold scrollwork on the neck and lip. The cover is decorated with a continuous scene of Chinese figures in a garden. There are gold bands round the rim, and knob, the top of which is also gilded.
History note: Unknown before Sir Richard Jessel
Given by Sir Richard Jessel
Height: 22.8 cm
Width: 16 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1972-01-20) by Jessel, Richard, Sir
1720s
18th Century, second quarter#
Frederick Augustus I
Circa
1725
CE
-
1730
CE
Decoration
composed of
lustre
enamel
gold
Foot
Diameter 7.6 cm
Glazing : Hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and decorated with painting in enamels, purple lustre, and gilding
Accession number: C.9 & A-1972
Primary reference Number: 140372
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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