Coffee Cup
ca. 1750 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Accession number | 519-1875 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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