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

Cup and Saucer

1745-1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Quatrelobe chocolate cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, with a yellow ground, and each are painted with alternating panels of Watteauesque elegant figures, and deutsche Blumen reserved on the yellow ground, and with gilt scrollwork and scale-ground borders.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cup
  • Saucer
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted and gilded
Brief description
Quatrelobe chocolate cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain with a yellow ground, painted and gilded, Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, 1745-1750.
Physical description
Quatrelobe chocolate cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, with a yellow ground, and each are painted with alternating panels of Watteauesque elegant figures, and deutsche Blumen reserved on the yellow ground, and with gilt scrollwork and scale-ground borders.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (In underglaze blue)
  • 'S' (In gilt)
Credit line
From the Arthur and Hilde Weiner Collection. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the V&A, 2006
Object history
Formerly in the Arthur and Hilde Weiner Collection.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.82:1, 2-2006

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Record createdApril 23, 2009
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