Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
Twelve Plates

CultureGerman
Titles
  • Twelve Plates
  • from the "Mollendorff" Service
Datec. 1761
PlaceMeissen, Germany
MediumHard-paste porcelain
DimensionsEach: 1 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (3.8 × 26.4 × 26 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline Wiess Law
Object number2004.1370.20-.31
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
Object Type
ProvenanceGeneral Wichard Joachin Heinrich von Möllendorff, c. 1761; by descent Counts Wilamowitz-Mollendorff; [...]; [Christies, New York]; purchased by Caroline Wiess Law, November, 1977; bequeathed to MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History"English Taste: The Art of Dining in the Eighteenth Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 17 September 2011 - 29 January 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Blue crossed swords on the underside.

Impressed # on the the underside: "36"

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