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Cup and saucer (part of a service)

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
After a print by Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After a composition by Francis Barlow British

model introduced 1738

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533

The design of swans swimming amid reeds is based on an etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Francis Barlow (ca. 1626–1702).

Cup and saucer (part of a service), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain, German, Meissen — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Cup and saucer (part of a service)

Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)

Artist: After a print by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)

Artist: After a composition by Francis Barlow (British, Lincolnshire ca. 1626–1704 London)

Date: model introduced 1738

Culture: German, Meissen

Medium: Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions: Overall (cup .113): 3/16 × 3 1/2 in. (0.5 × 8.9 cm);
Overall (saucer .114): 1 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (3.2 × 14.6 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain

Credit Line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941

Accession Number: 42.205.113, .114

Chronology

Central Europe (including Germany), 1600-1800 A.D.

"German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century"

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