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Pounce Pot (Sandstreuer) Pounce Pot, ca. 1770
This is a pounce pot. It was probably Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin and manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This object was
bequest of
Georgiana L. McClellan.
It is credited Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan.
- Egg Pendant Necklace
- hollow formed and fabricated silver and stainless steel.
- The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- 2016-34-26
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 8.5 × 10 × 7.5 cm (3 3/8 × 3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Underside: [1] ".CIV.", painted in purple overglaze [2] cursive "w.271." or "no.271", painted or written in brown ink overglaze [3] "AS", painted overglaze (faint) [4] "1D" (?), impressed underglaze (very faint, along edge)
It is signed
Unsigned
It is inscribed
Uninscribed
Cite this object as
Pounce Pot (Sandstreuer) Pounce Pot, ca. 1770; Probably Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin (Germany); Manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory (Germany); hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x W x D: 8.5 × 10 × 7.5 cm (3 3/8 × 3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan; 1953-17-133
