American with a sweetmeat dish, by the du Paquier Factory

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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