Cup and Saucer
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
Dimensions
Saucer: Diam.: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Cup: 7.3 × 6.7 cm (2 7/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Classification
drinking vessel
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41840
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The first European factory to make hard-paste porcelain according to traditional Chinese methods was at Meissen in Saxony. Anxious to guard the secret of making porcelain, the Saxon authorities made it difficult for workers to leave Meissen. Still, some of them managed to get to Vienna in 1719, where they were employed at the factory founded by the court official Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier. The Meissen and Du Paquier factories competed with and influenced one another, but Du Paquier porcel...