two handled cup and saucer
Summary
Public: Two handled cup and saucer, hard paste porcelain, painted in gilt with chinoiserie scenes on a white ground. Private: Hard paste porcelain, tall, narrow cup with everted rim, curves in to high footring and has two double-scroll handles in the form of branches. Shallow, circular saucer with flat base and everted rim. Painted in gilt and etched with chinoiserie scenes on diaper and scrollwork brackets. Simpler scrollwork border around inner rims of cup and saucer, the decoration rubbed. Decorated in Augsburg, c.1730.
Object Name
two handled cup and saucer
Creators Name
Date Created
body: 1720 - 1725; decoration; possibly c.1730
Dimensions
cup: 8.2cm
saucer:
accession number
1981.338/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Germany
Medium
Credit
Dr Frederick Lacks and Dr Erna Lacks Bequest
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