tea-bowl; saucer

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Object Type: tea-bowl; saucer
Museum number: Franks.70
Description: Teabowl and saucer; hard-paste porcelain; interior of cup and well of saucer gilded; exterior of cup decorated with applied rustic trophies and figures in low relief in black and brown enamel, silver and gold partly heightened with red; gold mark on base of saucer and cup; water-carrier for Aquarius on saucer, scales for Libra on cup.
Producer name
Production date: 1720 (circa)
Production place: Factory in: Meissen; Decorated in: Saxony (state)
Materials: porcelain (hard-paste); gold; silver; enamel
Technique: glazed; gilded; applied; low relief; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 11.20 centimetres (saucer); Height: 4.30 centimetres (cup)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Dawson 1985 The decoration is highly unusual. It has recently (August 2014) been attributed to Georg Funcke by Malcolm Gutter. Funcke had a workshop in Dresden.
Bibliographic references: Franks 1896 / Catalogue of a Collection of Continental Porcelain (70); Dawson 1985 / Documentary Continental Ceramics from the British Museum (13)
Location: On display (G46/dc16)
Condition: Gilding slightly rubbed off centre of saucer.
Subjects: heraldry; zodiac
Associated names: Emblem of: Aquarius; Emblem of: Libra
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Franks.70

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