Cup and saucer
Konigliche Porzellanmanufaktur, Berlin
about 1817
Medium/TechniqueHard paste porcelain with gilding
DimensionsOverall (cup): 11.4 × 10.2 × 7.6 cm (4 1/2 × 4 × 3 in.)
Height x diameter (saucer): 2.2 × 13.3 cm (7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Height x diameter (saucer): 2.2 × 13.3 cm (7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number2022.1857a-b
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
ProvenanceProbably the German art market [see note 1]. December 3, 2003, purchased by Richard Baron Cohen (Twinight Collection, inv. no. B-197), Oyster Bay, NY [see note 2]; after about 2007, probably sold from the Twinight Collection. About 2015/2020, purchased in Baltimore by an anonymous private collector, Long Island; 2022, sold by this anonymous collector to European Decorative Arts Company, Greenvale, NY; 2022, sold by European Decorative Arts Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 12, 2022) NOTES:
[1] A modern, German-language adhesive label is on the underside of the saucer. [2] See Samuel Wittwer, Richard Baron Cohen, and Sarah Louise Galbraith, Refinement and Elegance (Munich, 2007), pp. 208, 451, cat. no. no. 35.
