Two-handled beaker and saucer

Meissen Manufactory

1720–25 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Two-handled beakers accompanied by saucers were usually used for drinking chocolate. This example was made at the Meissen factory, the first to produce hard-paste porcelain in Europe. The beaker and saucer were decorated in Augsburg, probably in the workshop of a family named Seuter. Independent porcelain painters, known as Hausmalers, often purchased undecorated Meissen porcelain and painted their own, sometimes quite distinctive, compositions and designs.

Artist

Meissen Manufactory

Date

1720–25

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Culture

German, Meissen with German, Augsburg decoration

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973