Beaker (c. 1745–1750): Art, History and Details

Beaker (c. 1745–1750) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In an effort to rejuvenate its style of decoration, the Meissen factory acquired a large group of French engravings about 1740. During the next decade, figural decorations in the style of Antoine Watteau and his followers became a typical mode of decoration on Meissen pporcelain.

Object facts

• Title: Beaker
• Date: c. 1745–1750
• Creator attribution: Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
• Culture: Germany, Meissen, 18th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain
• Dimensions: Diameter: 11 x 8 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1947.284

Collection credit

Gift of A. & R. Ball

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foote, Helen. "A Gift of Continental Ceramics." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 10 (December 1948): 224, 229.

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