Cup and Saucer with Swans
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Curved hard-paste porcelain cup with high looped strap handle. Saucer is slightly curved. Overglaze decoration on cup showing silver swans and gold reeds on red ground. Gold edge and band, with foliated black band between them. Saucer with similar decoration, except for swans.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
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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: Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-17-26-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, metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: cup): 6.9 × 7 × 9.7 cm (2 11/16 × 2 3/4 × 3 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: saucer): 2.6 × 14.4 cm (1 in. × 5 11/16 in.)