Frankenthal
(Germany 1755–1799)
- Title
- Cup and saucer
- Year
- circa 1756-circa 1759
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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cup 5.9 x 8.0 x 5.9 cm; saucer 2.8 x 11.9 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.162.a-b
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The decoration of amorous couples in garden settings reflects a taste for the art of the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Though the painter had died decades earlier, engravings of his work and of that of his followers were widely imitated by porcelain decorators from c1740, particularly in Germany.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 95 (colour illus.). cat.no. 118
