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Tea service for two people (tête-à-tête)
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Tea service for two people (tête-à-tête)

Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur · 1775 - 1778 · turning; paint; drawn thread work; gild; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; leather; wood (plant material); gold (metal); email; porcelain

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Empress Maria Theresa of Austria presented this tea service to the pastellist Jean Etienne Liotard, who had portrayed her eleven children in Vienna. The service was made in the Viennese porcelain factory, which had been established by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in 1718; for this enterprise, he had lured workers away from Meissen. Maria Theresa took over the factory in 1744 and renamed it the Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur.

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tête-à-têtevaatwerk
Credit lineTea service for two people (tête-à-tête). 1775 - 1778. Kaiserliche Porzellanmanufaktur. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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