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Cruet bottle and cover
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Cruet bottle and cover
- Place of origin:
Höchst, Germany (made)
- Date:
ca. 1760 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Höchst porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
- Museum number:
C.1503&A-1919
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 21, shelf 6
Physical description
Cruet bottle and cover of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded.
[Cruet bottle] Bottle with an oviform body with a long tapering neck. On one side is a male and female peasant seated drinking, and on the other is a rustic landscape. The neck is spirally fluted. Scrollwork handle and jutting lip.
Place of Origin
Höchst, Germany (made)
Date
ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/maker
Höchst porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
A wheel under an Electoral Hat
'I'
Dimensions
Height: 16.5 cm, Diameter: 6.9 cm
Descriptive line
Cruet bottle and cover of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Höchst porcelain factory, Höchst, ca. 1760.
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Man; Woman; Landscape; Scrollwork; Fluted
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
