IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140350 accession number: C.7 & A-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain cup and saucer decorated in the style of J. G. Horoldt, with enamel colours, purple lustre (misfired gold) and gilt. Bell shaped cup with a triple curved, ear-shaped handle. Shallow, circular saucer. There is a four lobed panel on the front of the cup, framed by scrollwork in gold with small areas of purple lustre and in iron-red and purple enamel. Painted in colours within is a Chinese man, standing beside a lady seated on a high backed chair with a child at her knee. On each side of the gilt handle are 'Indian' flowers. There is a gilt band round the foot ring and elaborate gilt scrollwork inside the rim. In the middle of the saucer there is a larger four lobed panel, similarly framed and painted in enamels with two Chinese musicians and a flowering tree. There is elaborate gold scrollwork round the rim. On there back are two sprays of Indian' flowers with an insect in the spaces between them. title: cup and saucer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Sir Richard Jessel LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Richard Jessel STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140350 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, purple lustre, and gilding glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1724 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1724 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 1720s culture: Frederick Augustus I CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory