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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Coffee Cup

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain. Moulded, double-scroll handle picked out in gold. Painted in colours with a harbour scene with merchants framed by a cartouche of rococo scrolls combined with rose and grape trellises, gilt interior and footring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1750
Physical description
Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain. Moulded, double-scroll handle picked out in gold. Painted in colours with a harbour scene with merchants framed by a cartouche of rococo scrolls combined with rose and grape trellises, gilt interior and footring.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (Factory mark, in blue)
  • '41' (Impressed)
Object history
From Bond Collection.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
519-1875

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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