Porcelain coffee cup with rectangular handle with gilt decoration, diamond border & gilt scroll with gilt dots in relief around rim, hand-painted scene in black of 2-headed (one bearded), garland-draped hermetic column, surrounded by trees and flowers and a low wall.
coffee cups
gilding
porcelain
glazing (coating)
Classical
hand-painted
Cup
Cup, Coffee
Porcelain
Hand Painted
Gilded
Classical
Cup, Coffee
"608/ 6" (Impressed on bottom)
Vienna Porcelain Factory (Maker)
Vienna, Austria
2 1/2 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Estate of Mr. Grenville H. Norcross
1937.774
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