Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735
- Date
- ca. 1870–1900
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
- Medium
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- H x diam. (b): 2 x 11.4 cm (13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- cup and saucer
- Type
- cup and saucer
