Taperstick (One of Four)
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: One of four tapersticks forming part of a table centerpiece modeled as flowing rococo scrollwork and shaded in tones of iron-red, puce, yellow, blue and green. A partially draped figure holds 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-b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: taperstick
label: Type
content: taperstick
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 11.5 × 16 × 27 cm (4 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)