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) (1719, Unknown-1792, Unknown)

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

Type of object:

Porcelain

Period of activity:

From 1740

Place of production:

Meissen

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.

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 Baroque Art", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://baroqueart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;BAR;hr;Mus11;27;en

Prepared by: Marina BagarićMarina Bagarić

SURNAME: Bagaric
NAME: Marina

AFFILIATION: Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia

TITLE: Senior Curator, Head of the Ceramics Collection and Architecture
Department

CV:
Marina Bagaric studied Art History and Russian Language and Literature at Zagreb University, and was awarded her MA in the History of Architecture in 2006. She has been a curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts since 1998, and since 2004, a Senior Curator and head of the Ceramics Collection and Architecture Department. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary Croatian ceramics, and is author and contributing author of various articles and catalogues associated with the Museum’s exhibitions: Art Nouveau in Croatia (2003), Tuscan Donations (2004) and Hidden Treasures from the Holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts (2005/6).
Copyedited by: Graham McMaster
Translation by: Graham McMaster
Translation copyedited by: Mandi GomezMandi Gomez

Amanda Gomez is a freelance copy-editor and proofreader working in London. She studied Art History and Literature at Essex University (1986–89) and received her MA (Area Studies Africa: Art, Literature, African Thought) from SOAS in 1990. She worked as an editorial assistant for the independent publisher Bellew Publishing (1991–94) and studied at Bookhouse and the London College of Printing on day release. She was publications officer at the Museum of London until 2000 and then took a role at Art Books International, where she worked on projects for independent publishers and arts institutions that included MWNF’s English-language editions of the books series Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. She was part of the editorial team for further MWNF iterations: Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean Virtual Museum and the illustrated volume Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean.

True to its ethos of connecting people through the arts, MWNF has provided Amanda with valuable opportunities for discovery and learning, increased her editorial experience, and connected her with publishers and institutions all over the world. More recently, the projects she has worked on include MWNF’s Sharing History Virtual Museum and Exhibition series, Vitra Design Museum’s Victor Papanek and Objects of Desire, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s online publication 2 or 3 Tigers and its volume Race, Nation, Class.

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