BIEDERMEIER CUPS
Dedications on Porcelain The Homann Collection
H. Wiewelhove a.o.
The triumphal advance of the newly imported exotic beverages from the New World ? coffee, tea and cocoa ? changed drinking habits and thus also the design of the requisite vessels. Cups became ever more popular. Already in the 18th century, court porcelains were valued more for their representational worth than for their utilitarian function. Once porcelain could be produced less expensively, it also conquered large parts of the bourgeoisie and so a new market and design possibilities. The ?miniature work of art? ? cup and saucer ? was now adapted to every conceivable occasion and subject, enhanced by an appropriate text and illustrations: general and unique events, friendship and love, portraits of monarchs or victorious commanders ? the imagination was boundless.

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