Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Two handled beaker and saucer
- Year
- circa 1740
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
beaker 7.2 x 10.8 x 7.9 cm; saucer 2.9 x 12.9 cm diam; combined height 8.1 cm:
a - beaker; 7.2 x 10.8 x 7.9cm
b - saucer; 2.9 x 12.9cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.46.a-b
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The sides are decorated with stylised flowers of the kind known at Meissen as Indianische Blumen (oriental flowers). The purple ground has been erased in an area corresponding exactly to that in which the flowers were subsequently painted.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 18 (colour illus.). cat.no. 10
