cup
- Museum number
- Franks.74
- Description
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Small cup; hard-paste porcelain; moulded with four lobes; bluish-grey glaze; shaped handle; applied strawberry leaves and flowers of white glazed porcelain; marked.
- Production date
- 1725-1730
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.60 centimetres
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Length: 7.50 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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See comments on Franks 72, another piece made of the same rare porcelain body coloured blue.
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Dawson 1985
There are a small number of pieces in this paste in Museums: an octagonal beaker measuring 5.6cm. in height in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt (see catalogue compiled by Margit Bauer, 'Deutsches Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts', Frankfurt am Main, 1983, no. 9), a tankard measuring 12.5cm. in height in the Staatliche Porzellansammlung, Dresden, with a relief portrait of Augustus the Strong (see I. Handt and H. Rakebrand, 'Meissner Porzellan des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts 1710-1750', Dresden, 1956, fig. 24), three large vases and covers in the Untermyer Collection (see Y. Hackenbroch, 'Meissen and other Continental Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection', London, 1956, fig. 117, pl. 85 and p. 130, and a beaker-shaped vase matching the Untermyer vases is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. 17459), illus. A. L. den Blaauwen, 'Saksisch Porselein 1710-1740', exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, 1962, fig. 11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Franks.74
