This white cup with raised foot, has moulded vine decoration. Moulded prunus sprays applied on Dehua porcelain was the decoration most widely reproduced on Western copies. This motif was however adapted at times. In this example, the cup has a decoration looking more like grape vines.Dehua (in Fujian province, China) produced white wares that greatly influenced European porcelain. Such porcelain were admired and collected in the West, where they were known as 'blanc de Chine' or white porcelain. Meissen wares such as this example, is evidence of the widespread imitation of Dehua porcelain in Europe during the first half of the 18th century. Like Chinese porcelain, Meissen wares are made of hard-paste porcelain.
