Cup with the Arms of Poland/Saxony and Naples/Sicily

Cup with the Arms of Poland/Saxony and Naples/Sicily by Meissen Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Cochin I|Antoine Watteau|Gottlob Siegmund Birckner

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions

H. 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm.); Diam. 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm.)

Classification

Ceramics-Porcelain

Culture

German, Meissen

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1954

Accession Number

54.103.1

Tags

WomenCoat of Arms

About the Artist

Meissen Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Cochin I|Antoine Watteau|Gottlob Siegmund Birckner · 1710present

The Meissen Manufactory, established on June 6, 1710, by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, marked the dawn of true hard-paste porcelain production in Europe. Nestled at Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen near Dresden, the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory arose from alchemical experiments begun in 1708 by physicist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and p...

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