About the Artwork
Under the direction of Konrad Sörgel von Sorgenthal from 1784 until 1805, the Imperial Porcelain Factory of Vienna developed a unique style of decoration based on a rich new palette of colors (such as the café au lait ground used here) and improved methods of gilding. The simplified cylindrical shapes provided ideal surfaces for painting the large landscape views popular since the 1770s. Porcelain decorators, now trained in art academies, rivaled the finest painters of late eighteenth-century Europe. Decorating this tea set are miniature views of Pavlovsk Palace and park, the summer residence near Saint Petersburg of the Russian imperial family.
Coffee Can and Saucer
ca. 1804
Vienna Porcelain Factory
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Austrian
Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome decoration and gold
Overall (cup): 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (6.4 × 6.4 cm) Overall (saucer): 1 1/8 × 5 3/8 inches (2.9 × 13.7 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
1988.69.6
Public Domain
Markings
Marks, on cup, impressed in underglaze blue: 804 [date cypher] 47 [shield mark] Marks, on saucer, impressed in underglaze blue: 804 [date cypher] 51 [shield mark]
Provenance
(Armin B. Allen, Inc.)
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 33; 50 (ill.); 134, cat. 46.
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Vienna Porcelain Factory, Coffee Can and Saucer, ca. 1804, hard-paste porcelain with polychrome decoration and gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1988.69.6.
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