Name of Object:

Breakfast Set

Location:

Zagreb, North-West Croatia, Croatia

Holding Museum:

Museum of Arts and Crafts

 About Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb

Date of Object:

c. 1776

Artist(s) / Craftsperson(s):

Friedrich Cristian Kühnel (painter)

Museum Inventory Number:

MUO 1019, 1037-1050, 1417, 1418

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Porcelain with painted and gilded decoration

Dimensions:

Tray: 30 cm x 30 cm; height of milk jug: 8 cm; height of sugar bowl: 8 cm; height of teapot: 14 cm; height of cups: 7cm and 4.5 cm; diameter of saucers: 13.3 cm; length of spoon: 11 cm

Workshop / Movement:

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Description:

The breakfast set consists of a triangular tray, a sugar bowl, teapot, milk jug, high and low cups with saucers and porcelain teaspoons. The tray has rounded corners and a bevelled, scalloped rim. The teapot is potbellied with a curving handle and a tubular spout. The milk jug has a potbellied body on three short legs imitating twigs, a curved handle and short lip. The cups and the sugar bowl are simple in shape, on a low round base, and without handles. All parts of the set have gilt, lacy decorative edges. The knobs of the lids are in the shape of a rose. Each item of the set depicts a different war scene whose actors are Croatian border troops and the Pandurs of Baron Franjo Trenk, shown at moments of rest and while in action. Some of the scenes on the pieces are after Martin Engelbrecht’s prints. All items show the mark of the Meissen manufactory: crossed swords and a star, or a dot below and the impressed mark: X, P, 60, 64.

View Short Description

Adorning each item of the breakfast set are polychrome painted scenes of warfare with the soldiers of the Croatian border troops and the Pandurs of Baron Franjo Trenk.

How date and origin were established:

By stylistic analysis and from the marks of the Meissen manufactory.

How Object was obtained:

Purchased from the collection of the Zagreb art collector, Levin Horvath in 1885, 1888 and 1895.

Selected bibliography:

Staničić, S., "Ratni prizori s hrvatskim sudionicima na porculanu meissenske proizvodnje", Od svagdana do blagdana: barok u Hrvatskoj , Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb, 1993, p. 170.
Staničić, S., Porculan. Meissen-Beč. Zbirka keramike Muzeja za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb, Zagreb, 2004, p. 60.

Citation of this web page:

Marina  Bagarić "Breakfast Set" in Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;BAR;hr;Mus11;27;en

Prepared by: Marina Bagarić
Copyedited by: Graham McMaster
Translation by: Graham McMaster
Translation copyedited by: Mandi Gomez


MWNF Working Number: HR 27