Sugar Bowl
ca. 1750-1760 (made)
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Sugar bowl with cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Circular with two scrolled loop handles, picked out in gold, with flower attachments painted in enamel colours; slight domed cover with knob in the form of a flower, shaded in orange-red; the circular stand in the form of a dish with gilt wavy edge. Painted with panels reserved on a scale blue ground and bordered with slightly raised and gilt rococo scrollwork, containing landscapes with water, shipping, castles, ruins, trees and rocks; the panels joined to each other by flowers and foliage in applied relief, and painted in colours.
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Sugar bowl with cover and stand, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Austria (Vienna), ca. 1750-60 |
| Physical description | Sugar bowl with cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Circular with two scrolled loop handles, picked out in gold, with flower attachments painted in enamel colours; slight domed cover with knob in the form of a flower, shaded in orange-red; the circular stand in the form of a dish with gilt wavy edge. Painted with panels reserved on a scale blue ground and bordered with slightly raised and gilt rococo scrollwork, containing landscapes with water, shipping, castles, ruins, trees and rocks; the panels joined to each other by flowers and foliage in applied relief, and painted in colours. |
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| Accession number | C.856 to B-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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