Breakfast-service

 

Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur Wien, Austria, 1805–1807

 

Glazed porcelain

H: 20 cm (pot)

Markings: Coat of arms of Vienna in blue

UMP 7594

 

A porcelain coffee déjeuner or breakfast-service. The cups and jugs have egg-shaped Empire forms with high coiled handles. The sepia paintings of animals within gilt-line octagonal panels are surmounted by inscriptions.