Cup and Saucer
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1870–1900
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Curved flaring cup, with twisted stem handle, ending in leaves. Slightly curved saucer. On cup, relief decoration of mythological scenes (Judgement of Paris, Mercury, Neptune), enhanced with polychrome painting. Upper part of cup and inside gilded. Saucer gilded with polychrome relief festoons and cartouches.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Doccia, 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: Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-17-83-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 W x D (a): 5.7 x 7.5 x 6 cm (2 1/4 x 2 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b): 2 x 11.4 cm (13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)