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Sugar bowl with cover

Made at: Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
German
about 1719
Object Place: Europe, Meissen, Germany

Medium/Technique Bottger porcelain with molded decoration
Dimensions Overall: 8.7 x 20.5cm (3 7/16 x 8 1/16in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number1988.348a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionPlain white straight-sided bowl with two ear-shaped scrolled handles. Applied decoration of strapwork and lambrequins. Domed cover with pine cone finial and applied lambrequins and three diaper pattern cartouches with masks.
ProvenanceBy 1988, with Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz Continental Ceramics, London; 1988, sold by Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz Continental Ceramics to the MFA. (Accession date: September 28, 1988)