Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
Two handled soup bowl and cover
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The branch handles and knop in the form of a double anemone are examples of the Meissen factory’s increasing interest in naturalistic motifs. The painted scenes, featuring inebriated peasants, are in the manner of the 17th-century Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger, whose work was much admired in aristocratic circles in the 18th century. The bowl would almost certainly have had a matching porcelain stand.
- Year
- circa 1745
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 19.3 x 14.4 cm
:
a - soup bowl; 7 x 19.3 x 13.9cm
b - cover; 6 x 14.4cm - Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.51.a-b
