- Museum number
- C395
C395A - Object
- Two-handled cup and saucer, Meissen Porcelain Factory, porcelain, about 1750 with later decoration
- Description
- Two-handled cup, German, Meissen, c 1845. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in enamel colours with gilding. The tall cup with scroll handles, small acanthus leaves at top, highlighted in gold, the cup with gilt rim, yellow ground, two reserve panels on each side edged in gold with pastoral scenes in puce of couples seated.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Crossed L's in underglaze blue scroed through, gilt 12.
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- cup
saucer - Subject
- Pastoral
- Dimensions
- regular: 8.0cm (w)
Two-handled cup and saucer
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, about 1750, decorated about 1845
C395
Very little of Sir William’s eighteenth-century Continental porcelain was genuine. This eighteenth century Meissen cup and saucer was sold off as old undecorated stock by the factory in the early nineteenth century. At that point a distinctive cancellation mark was put through the factory’s famous crossed swords mark. The cup and saucer were later given inferior puce decoration in an eighteenth-century style on a yellow ground.
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