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Pot and cover
Pot, soft-paste porcelain, swelling form with short cylindrical foot-rim and bulbous body sloping inwards at the shoulder before flaring slightly to the lip-rim, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a piece of fruit with a stem and leaves whihc have now partially broken off; finely painted in puce monochrome with around the exterior body of the pot and the sides of the cover sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers including several roses, a very worn brown edge to the lip-rim of the pot, the fruit finial picked out in puce. The lip-rim of the pot chipped with a crack to one side of the body, the rim of the cover slightly chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35888
Creation/Production
Chantilly Porcelain Factory
Date: 1750-1765
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.5
diam
(cm): 10.8
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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