Möllendorff service
Spoon
ca. 1770 (made)
ca. 1770 (made)
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Spoon with hard-paste porcelain handle, silver shaft and bowl. Decorated on the handle with panels containing musical instruments and flowers in low relief within gilt rococo borders, the interspaces filled with scale pattern in orange and gold; in the middle, on each side, a spray of flowers.
Object details
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| Title | Möllendorff service (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain with relief decoration, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Silver spoon with porcelain handle, part of a dinner service (Möllendorff service), handle of hard-paste porcelain with relief decoration and painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1770 |
| Physical description | Spoon with hard-paste porcelain handle, silver shaft and bowl. Decorated on the handle with panels containing musical instruments and flowers in low relief within gilt rococo borders, the interspaces filled with scale pattern in orange and gold; in the middle, on each side, a spray of flowers. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the Captain H. B. Murray Bequest |
| Object history | Part of a dinner service (Möllendorff service), C.238 to 256-1921. |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Accession number | C.255B-1921 |
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| Record created | October 26, 2009 |
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