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Teacup and Saucer with Chinoiserie
ca. 1740
hard paste porcelain
(18th and 19th Centuries )
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The chinoiserie, or pseudo-Chinese scenes, may have been painted on the gold ground by a Hausmaler, or independent decorator, working outside the Meissen porcelain factory on blank Meissen porcelain.
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Provenance
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Shandon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland; Henry Walters, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany, Meissen (Place of Origin)
Measurements
2 5/8 x 5 3/16 in. (6.7 x 13.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.890