id: 154553 accession number: 1989.180 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.180 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:05.164000 Covered Box, c. 1750. Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710). Porcelain mounted in silver with traces of gilding; overall: 16.3 cm (6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.180 title: Covered Box title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin copyright: --- culture: Germany, Meissen, 18th century technique: porcelain mounted in silver with traces of gilding department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710) - manufacturer the first and for half a century the best in Europe. It set a high standard which was emulated everywhere, even in China. Founded in 1710 as the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, at Meissen, near Dresden. --- measurements: Overall: 16.3 cm (6 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (A. & R. Ball, New York); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1955. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hawley, Henry. "European Porcelain: The Millikin Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (1993): 3-35. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 18-19 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161384 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.180/1989.180_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.180/1989.180_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.180/1989.180_full.tif