Spoon — Möllendorff service, Meissen, ca. 1770
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1770
Spoon in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number C.255B-1921), made in Meissen, dated ca. 1770. The museum's brief description reads: Silver spoon with porcelain handle, part of a dinner service (Möllendorff service), handle of hard-paste porcelain with relief decoration and painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca.
1770. Museum description: Spoon with hard-paste porcelain handle, silver shaft and bowl. Decorated on the handle with panels containing musical instruments and flowers in low relief within gilt rococo borders, the interspaces filled with scale pattern in orange and gold; in the middle, on each side, a spray of flowers. The museum records it as Hard-paste porcelain with relief decoration, painted in enamels and gilt, measuring Length 210 mm.
These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- hard paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- Length 210 mm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Hard-paste porcelain with relief decoration, painted in enamels and gilt
- Place recorded
- Meissen
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- Berlin hallmark, bear; 'WH'; 'FW' in script
Identification
- Museum object name
- Spoon
- Museum object number
- C.255B-1921
- Museum system number
- O1139452
Catalogue references
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