cup & saucer
Summary
Public: Cup and saucer, hard paste porcelain, decorated with floral sprays with gilt rococo borders and scalloped rims. Private: Cup and saucer, hard paste porcelain. Cup and saucer with deep lobed and petalled rims, the cup with scroll handle. Decorated in yellow, purple, green, orange and blue enamel colours with diagonally trailling swags and sprays of naturalistic flowers (deutsche Blumen) within scrolling gilt rococo borders on a blue scale ground (Schuppenmosaik). Rims painted with gilt scallops.
Object Name
cup & saucer
Creators Name
Date Created
about 1765
Dimensions
cup: 7.3cm
saucer:
accession number
1947.734/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Germany
Medium
Credit
George Beatson Blair bequest
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