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Drawing, Designs for Bowl, Cup, and Saucer

This is a Drawing. It is dated mid- 19th century and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and gray, yellow, brown watercolor on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

30.8 × 21.1 cm (12 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: in a vertical row a Mercury cup, two crossed scourges, a French horn, ovoidal lines which connect respectively from the two latter motifs and which below form a monogram of C(?) E R

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, above bowl: Schwengschale; between cup and saucer: theetasse samt Becher

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Bowl, Cup, and Saucer; Italy; brush and gray, yellow, brown watercolor on cream paper; 30.8 × 21.1 cm (12 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-736

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