Cup and Saucer
date: label: Date
content: 1735–1745
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Style of
content: Christian Frederich Herold, German, 1700–1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cup hemispherical, with slight outcurving at edge; cylindrical foot; no handle. Saucer shallow, curved side, slight outcurving at edge. Outside of cup and saucer decorated with slightly mottled red-violet, in which on cup are two four-lobed reserve panels enclosing seaport scenes. Upper face of saucer decorated with seaport enclosed in framework of gilding and colored scrolls. "Lace" borders in gilding. Inside of cup has small landscape decoration.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-441-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: cup and saucer
label: Type
content: cup and saucer
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (a: cup): 4.2 × 7.5 cm (1 5/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: saucer): 1.6 × 12.2 cm (5/8 × 4 13/16 in.)