CM98a,b (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Coffee cup and saucer with run-on words, spelling and punctuation errors, the advertising copy in gold script is printed on a diagonal around the cup and on the saucer: "High-Rich Fine porcelain is characterized by superb quality,…Each product is manufactured with great care.the cream-coloured egg-…porcelain guarantees uniformity in itsoutide It looksharmonious,elegant,…needs the power of artisitic conceptiom." A similar practice of arbitrary and inappropriate use of English occurred in Japan in the 1970s, especially on T-shirts and shopping bags. The practice is not unlike the occasional inclusion of Chinese characters in European Chinoiserie.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Landao Department Store, Beijing
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
July 2004
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
2003-2004
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 5.4 centimeters and diameter 13.6 centimeters
Comment:
Inscription: Seal on the foot has no Chinese: “ROSETTA Classic”