Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pear-shaped body, slightly compressed in lower part. Open spout, triple scrolled handle. Domed cover with pine-cone knob. unglazed relief lines, forming four compartments. The area between these, and the edge are painted yellow. Polychrome soldier scenes and flower clusters alternating in panels on pot and cover. Gold edge and scents on spout, handle and knob.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763
- Workshop of
- Helena Wolfsohn, German, active late 19th century
- Date
- 1870–1900
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
- Medium
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a,b: overall?): 13.5 × 10.5 × 8 cm (5 5/16 × 4 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- H x W x D (a: creamer): 11 × 10.5 × 8 cm (4 5/16 × 4 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- H x diam. (b: lid): 3 × 5 cm (1 3/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- creamer
- Type
- creamer
