- Museum number
- C973.1
C973.2 - Object
- Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, Meissen Porcelain Factory, about 1730
- Description
- Tea Bowl, part of a set with C 973.2 Saucer, German, Meissen, c. 1720-25, from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Hard-paste porcelain decorated with the Japanese Kakiemon "Quail" pattern in enamel colours and a small amount of gilding. The bowl octagonal in shape with a simple Kakiemon pattern on one side with two quails (one red, one blue) and prunus, and on the opposite side a small spray of leaves and flowers with three gilt petals, and three tiny leaf sprays to the right side, pale brown rim
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Small crossed swords in blue and incised, the mark N = 346W which refers to its ownership by the Elector.
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- cup
saucer - Subject
- Floral
- Dimensions
- regular: 5.7cm (w)
Tea bowl and saucer
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, about 1730
C973.1-2
Given by Cecil Spero, 1938
From the collection of Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony (1670–1733).
European porcelain factories copied Japanese and Chinese decoration directly as well as inventing their own Oriental motifs. This pattern showing two quails beneath a tree first appeared in late seventeenth-century Japan. It was soon copied in China and at Meissen in Germany. In England it was the Meissen copies that served as models for factories such as Chelsea and Worcester.
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