Four Tapersticks
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750–1760
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A table centerpiece formed in four sections as flowing rococo scrollwork shaded in tones of iron-red, puce, yellow, blue and green. Partially draped figures in various stances each holding a taperstick in the form of an elongated white cornucopia banded in gilding.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial and General Acqusition Endowment Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1987-50-1-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: tapersticks
label: Type
content: tapersticks
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 9 x 14.8 x 28 cm (3 9/16 x 5 13/16 x 11 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 11.5 x 16 x 27 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c): 14 x 16 x 28 cm (5 1/2 x 6 5/16 x 11 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (d): 11.5 x 17 x 25.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)