Cup and Saucer
ca. 1750-55 (made)
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Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with bouquets of flowers and gilt lines round the rim.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca.1750-1755 |
| Physical description | Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with bouquets of flowers and gilt lines round the rim. |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
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| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 98, Cat. 83
83. Cup and saucer with floral
decoration
1750-1755
hard-paste porcelain painted in colours and gold
cup diam. 4,8 cm; saucer diam. 12,3 cm
no mark
inv. C.376&A-1914
gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art
Fund
This cup and the particular type of deep saucer called “a scodellino” have a floral decoration which is still typical of the First Period at Doccia (1737-1757) as can be seen from the representations of European flowers like roses painted in shades of purple, bluebells and Indian flowers in red and gold. Decorations with naturalistic renderings of flowers were used at Doccia starting in the earliest years of the factory and were particularly influenced by the products of the Du Paquier factory. The association of two types of flower motifs, the use of hard-paste porcelain and the lively polychrome with purple and bright red, suggest a date to the last decade of the First Period. For similar decorations, see A. Biancalana, in BAROQUE LUXURY PORCELAIN 2005, p. 256, cat. 72.
A. d’A.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.376&A-1914 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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