Tea and coffee service
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1745 - circa 1750
Materials
Hard paste porcelain painted in enamels
Place of origin
Meissen
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1270561
Summary
A 42-piece Meissen tea and coffee service, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels with gallants and companions in landscape vignettes after Watteau, with naturalistic flowers and insects on the underside and gold line bands. Comprising of a tea pot and separate cover, a coffee pot and separate cover, a milk jug and separate cover, a tea caddy, a sugar bowl, a spoon tray, a slop bowl, 5 coffee cups, 10 tea bowls and 17 saucers. Makers mark of crossed swords in underglaze blue, gilder's marks and various pressnummers on underside. Circa 1745-50.
Provenance
Possibly among the Meissen purchased by Admiral Anson for Lady Anson in Amsterdam and Paris in 1750: '1 Dec 1750 - Lord Anson has bought Dresden china from Holland, a little French pendule for Mr. [Thomas] Anson...' (Staffordshire Records Office D615/PS/1/3/G), or in the 19th century. Given to the National Trust with Shugborough House and park on the death of the 4th Earl in 1960
Makers and roles
Meissen Porcelain Factory, maker