Beaker with Water Birds (One of a Pair)
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Beaker in the form first made in 1737 –1740 for the Swan Service. Painted decoration shows a bird in flight and a house on the shore.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1992-5-15
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: beaker
label: Type
content: beaker
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 8.9 × 7.6 cm (3 1/2 in. × 3 in.)