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c. 1765-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Scroll handle. Painted with a harlequin with a lady wearing a black mantle and yellow skirt in a landscape with obelisks, and framed in gilt-rococo scrollwork.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Ottweiler pottery, Germany, c. 1765-1770.
Physical description
Coffee cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Scroll handle. Painted with a harlequin with a lady wearing a black mantle and yellow skirt in a landscape with obelisks, and framed in gilt-rococo scrollwork.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.4cm
  • Diameter: 6.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
'N S' (In gold)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Trepesch, Christof (ed.), Ottweiler Porzellan, Worms : Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000 No. 20
Collection
Accession number
C.429-1920

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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