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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the intricate furniture designs created by Abraham and David Roentgen. The father-and-son team created innovative designs that were combined with intriguing mechanical devices to revolutionize traditional French and English furniture types.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Cup and saucer

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Date:: ca. 1828
Culture:: German (Berlin)
Medium:: Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:: Cup (.1): Gr. H. 4-3/4 in. (12.1 cm.); Saucer (.2): Diam. 5-3/4 in. (14.6 cm.)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.330.1,2

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: [1] Wandle hymen, Euch hold, diese Silber in Gold (on cup) [2] 20 September 1803 / 20 September 1828 / Luise Goldhugen / geb. Ziegler. (on saucer)

Marking: [1] Scepter (in underglaze blue, on bottom of each) [2] Imperial eagle above K.P.M. (stamped in red-brown, on bottom of each) [3] 20 (impressed on bottom of saucer) [4] M (impressed on bottom of saucer)
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Who
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin (55)
What
Ceramics (29,326)

Clay (23,658)

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Porcelain (11,376)

Dishes (6,713)

Drinking vessels (6,032)

Cups (3,861)

Plates (3,606)

Hard paste porcelain (2,916)

Saucers (1,316)
Where
Europe (150,013)

Germany (15,973)

Berlin (108)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,792)
In the Museum
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Central Europe and Low Countries, 1800–1900 A.D.

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