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Standing Cup and Cover

Date: about 1710–1715
Medium: Stoneware with gilt-silver mounts
Culture: German
Department: Decorative Arts
Institution: Getty Museum

Johann Friedrich Böttger, the first European to make hard-paste porcelain, developed red stoneware at the Meissen porcelain manufactory in 1708. One of the hardest ceramic materials ever produced, stoneware could be polished and engraved on a wheel. This vessel's form and smooth surface imitate the lidded cups of hardstone or carved ivory that Europeans admired and collected in the 1700s.

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