Tray and Two Cups
ca. 1760-70 (made)
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Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, of hard-paste porcelain. Trefoil-shaped, the edge moulded with shell pattern shaded in pale purple and with foliation picked out in pale green and gold; the recesses for the cups bordered with applied scrollwork and shell pattern, similarly decorated; painted with bunches of flowers and fruit in natural colours; the cups with scrolled and twisted loop-handles, shaded in pale green and gold and moulded near the foot with a band of irregular shell pattern in low relief, shaded in pale purple and gold, the sides painted with similar bunches of flowers and fruit.
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Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain with moulded and applied decoration, painted in enamels and gilt |
Brief description | Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt; Kloster-Veilsdorf porcelain factory, Thuringia, Germany, ca. 1760-70 |
Physical description | Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, of hard-paste porcelain. Trefoil-shaped, the edge moulded with shell pattern shaded in pale purple and with foliation picked out in pale green and gold; the recesses for the cups bordered with applied scrollwork and shell pattern, similarly decorated; painted with bunches of flowers and fruit in natural colours; the cups with scrolled and twisted loop-handles, shaded in pale green and gold and moulded near the foot with a band of irregular shell pattern in low relief, shaded in pale purple and gold, the sides painted with similar bunches of flowers and fruit. |
Marks and inscriptions | 'C.V.' in monogram, in blue |
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Accession number | C.857 to B-1922 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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