Meissen Porcelain Factory
(Production)
Hard paste porcelain, painted overglaze in gold, and pale reddish violet mother-of-pearl lustre. Chinoiserie figures
Bought with the money given by Professor Stanley Cook in memory of his wife
Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 10.2 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: Bought
(1942-05-01)
1720s
Circa
1720
CE
-
1725
CE
Lustre Paint Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: EC.9-1942
Primary reference Number: 140449
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Two-handled cup"
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