CUP

Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage

About this object

Background color is pale lilac. Across the whole front is a scene painted naturalistically of a cook in a kitchen scolding a cat who has stolen a chicken. At the left is a stove with a pot and two kettles on it. The cook with white wap of a chef is seated on a bench in the center with a shelf of pots behind him. In a corner is a wine cask with the cat hiding behind it. To the right is a wall rack with plates and below it a table with a large pot with ladle sitting on it. Framed in gold of a rococo pattern. Flowers are painted underneath the gilded handle. Previously miscatalogued as porcelain, the cup and saucer are bone china

Object name:

CUP

Made from:

Bone china

Made in:

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date made:

1855-1881

Size:

6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.356.1

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK under: green cipher of Alexander II, Imperial crown, four dots arranged . . . .

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973