Chocolate Beaker and Saucer
ca. 1726-1727 (made)
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This beaker and saucer are early experimental porcelains from the Meissen factory. In both shape and decoration they follow closely products from the Dehua kilns in China.
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief |
| Brief description | Chocolate beaker and saucer, hard-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief, Meissen, ca. 1726-7 |
| Physical description | Chocolate beaker and saucer, of white hard-paste porcelain with moulded decoration of prunus blossom in relief. The beaker is closely copied from a Dehua porcelain, and has the double footring found on some Dehua pieces. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Dresden inventory mark on base 'N = 397 W' (Engraved and coloured black) |
| Credit line | Given by Mr Roland H. Ley |
| Object history | It is unmarked, except for the wheel-cut numeral which shows that it was formerly in the Royal Saxon Collection at the Japanese Palace in Dresden. (From RP: 1922/3398). |
| Production | Archive of Inter-Departmental Transfer of Museum Objects (RP: 1980/280) Several beakers and saucers of this type with this number are known. It has been suggested that they were probably experimental pieces made by the Meissen 'arcanist' (compounder) Samuel Stölzel (1685-1737) around 1726-7 (see Object Information file). |
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| Summary | This beaker and saucer are early experimental porcelains from the Meissen factory. In both shape and decoration they follow closely products from the Dehua kilns in China. |
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| Accession number | C.450&A-1922 |
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| Record created | January 8, 2009 |
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