Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Clair, Adam
Entities
Categories
Description
Hard-paste porcelain, decorated with a biscuit porcelain relief of Caroline of Bavaria, pink enamel ground, and gilding
Hard-paste porcelain, decorated with an applied biscuit porcelain relief, clear glaze, pink ground colour, and gilding. The cup is of curved beaker form with an everted rim, standing on a slightly domed and stepped foot. The handle has a swan's head upper terminal attached to the inside of the rim. It rises up above the rim and curves downwards and inwards to rejoin the side of the cup. The outside is moulded with an acanthus leaf, and there is a small circular 'bridge' half way up. The circular saucer has sloping sides, and a recessed base.
On the front of the cup there is a biscuit cameo head of a woman of in profile to right in an oval medallion with a gilt vermiculé ground. The rest of the exterior has a pink ground decorated at the top with a horizontal border of laurel and berries with a spray hanging down on each side of the handle. There is a broad gold band round the edge of the foot, and apart from the rim, and a small circle in the centre, the whole of the interior is gold. The handle is gold except for four reserved white bands.
The saucer is decorated in the centre with a circular medallion with a broad bold frame enclosing a gold stylized flower head. The rest of the inside has a pink ground, and there is a broad gold band round the rim. The edge of the rim, and the reverse are white.
Legal notes
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1997)
by
Rylands, G.H.W.
Dating
19th Century, Early
Maximilian I
Production date:
circa
AD 1810
Note
The portrait relief is of Queen Caroline of Bavaria, wife of Maximilian I of Bavaria (1756; king 1806-25). The model master, Johann Peter Melchior (active 1797-1822 at the factory) created a series of portrait busts which were also produced as biscuit reliefs and as decoration for vessels. The model of the Queen of Bavaria was made in 1809. The relief on the cup was modelled by Adam Clair who was employed at Nymphenburg between 1800-29, and executed Melchior's designs. (see Documentation, Bauer, 1983).
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pink)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13.2 cm
Height 2.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 7.9 cm
Cup
Height 11 cm
Relief
Materials used in production
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Hard-paste porcelain
: Hard-paste porcelain, decorated with an applied moulded biscuit relief, a pink enamel ground, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: Rautenschild
- Location: On inside of foot of cup
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: W
- Location: On inside of foot of cup
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Mark
- Text: AC monogram
- Location: On inside of foot of cup
- Type: Monogram
Inscription present: perhaps PS monogram
- Location: On inside of foot of cup
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Monogram
- Text: I R
- Location: On base of saucer near footring
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Mark
Inscription present: dot over the 1
- Text: 15
- Location: On base of saucer
- Method of creation: Painted in gold
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.95 & A-1997
Primary reference Number: 76431
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Thursday 14 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
