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Saucer, hard paste porcelain, riverside scene decorated with enamel colours with wood grain style decoration and gilt.
Private:
Saucer, hard paste porcelain. Circular, with slightly everted rim, curving down to inverted, unglazed footring. Painted on the upper side in black and grey enamel colours with trompe l'oeil engraving of a town beside a river, with a man fishing, one corner shown as torn. painted as though affixed with sealing wax on a grained wood ground (Holzmuster), in shades of iron red and brown. Gilt band on rim. The 'engraving' is inscribed ( ) hemars Nii V. S.
Technique: enamelling overglaze
Technique: gilding
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: hard paste
Material: gilt
Material: wood
saucer made in Vienna, Austria, Europe, 1780 -1785, (1983.51). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.8809 | Go to resource |
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