Dish
ca. 1740 (made)
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Dish of hard-paste porcelain painted in overglaze blue and gilded. Deep convex sides, and rim deeply indented with pointed and rounded lobes. Painted in the middle, in overglaze blue, is a mythological subject of a winged man seizing a young female. A child sits on a cloud. Border of lappets and kinked scrolls in tooled gilding with deep brown outlines. On the reverse is stylised foliage ending in kinked scrolls, painted in blue.
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Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted in overglaze blue and gilded |
Brief description | Dish of hard-paste porcelain painted in overglaze blue and gilded, Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, ca. 1740 |
Physical description | Dish of hard-paste porcelain painted in overglaze blue and gilded. Deep convex sides, and rim deeply indented with pointed and rounded lobes. Painted in the middle, in overglaze blue, is a mythological subject of a winged man seizing a young female. A child sits on a cloud. Border of lappets and kinked scrolls in tooled gilding with deep brown outlines. On the reverse is stylised foliage ending in kinked scrolls, painted in blue. |
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Accession number | C.22-1949 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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