- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR62.101
- People
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Manufactured by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German (founded 1710)
Designed by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, German (Dresden 1695 - 1749 Meissen)
- Title
- Plate with Gotzkowsky pattern
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1745
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Meissen
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222983
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- diameter: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: bottomm, underglaze blue: [crossed swords]
- inscription: bottom, sticker, black ink : Meissen 1745-50 373.c
- maker's mark: bottom, incised: 16 [mark of thrower/modeler]
- manufacturer's mark: bottom, incised: [three parallel marks] [indicating that the piece had firing flaws (which may account for the substandard paint quality)]
- Provenance
- Dr. Hans Syz, Greens Farms, Connecticut, 1943, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1962
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Dr. Hans Syz
- Accession Year
- 1962
- Object Number
- BR62.101
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Francesca Casadio, Anikó Bezur, Kelly Domoney, Katherine Eremin, Lynn Lee, Jennifer Mass, Andrew Shortland, and Nicholas Zumbulyadis, "X-ray fluorescence applied to overglaze enamel decoration on eighteenth- and nineteenth century porcelain from central Europe", Studies in Conservation (London, 2012), 57, 61-72.
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