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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain; cup standing on a tapering foot rim, curved sides and waved lip, with an ear-shaped loop handle; saucer standing on a tapered foot rim, with slightly curved spreading sides and waved lip; both moulded with a narrow border of basket weave above spiral gadrooning; painted with pink rose sprays within the wider gadroons between green gadroons edged in gilt; gilt lip, foot rim and gilt edge to the handle and foliate motif; a rose spray in the centre of the saucer within a gilt circular band.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34005
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1825
Acquisition
Purchase, 1908
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.5
diam
(cm): 7.7
l(cm) handle to lip:9.4
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(cm) handle to lip:3 3/4
l(cm)
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 14.1
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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