beaker; saucer

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Object Type: beaker; saucer
Museum number: Franks.122
Description: Beaker and saucer; hard-paste porcelain; painted in purple and orange with three of the Elements,: Venus on clouds and a putto with bow and arrow symbolising Air on saucer; a putto blowing embers and a winged deity (?Vulcan) symbolising Fire on cup; decorated with strapwork, stylised flowers, two grotesque masks and gilt ornament; signed.
Producer name: Factory of: Meissen Porcelain Factory; Decorated by: Johann Aufenwerth
Production date: 1715-1720 (made); 1725 (circa, decorated)
Production place: Factory in: Meissen; Decorated in: Augsburg
Materials: porcelain (hard-paste); gold
Technique: glazed; painted; gilded
Dimensions: Diameter: 14 centimetres (saucer)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This teabowl has long been considered a highly important documentary work for the study of Augsburg 'Hausmalerei' (independent house or home painters), as it bears the monogram I A W, for Johann Aufenwerth above 'Augsburg'. Literature: Pazaurek 1925, vol. 1, 113, fig. 84; W. B. Honey, 'European Ceramic Art', London, 1949, pl. 150A; H. Jedding, 'Europäisches Porzellan', Munich, 1971, Band I, p. III/202, fig. 585. S. Ducret, 'Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750', Braunschweig, 1971, Band I, Abb. 346, 76; and Dawson 1985, 17.
Bibliographic references: Franks 1896 / Catalogue of a Collection of Continental Porcelain (122); Ducret 1970 / Anna Elisabeth Wald, eine geborene Aufenwerth (figs 9,10,11); Dawson 1985 / Documentary Continental Ceramics from the British Museum (17); Pazaurek 1925 / Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan- Hausmaler (Volume 1. p.113, fig. 84); Jedding 1979 / Meissener Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts (p. 116, fig. 204); Savage 1958a / 18th-Century German Porcelain (pl. 135a); Ducret 1972 / Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Band II, figs. 16-20)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: flower; grotesque; allegory/personification; cherub/cupid; landscape; elements; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Aphrodite/Venus; Representation of: Hephaistos/Vulcan (?)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Franks.122

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