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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain, the saucer with a green translucency and the cup with a whiter translucency; the cup standing on a foot rim, with curved sides, slightly flared at lip; a ring and scroll handle; saucer on a foot rim, with curved sides; the cup painted in sepia and olive enamels; a landscape of a ruined castle and a tree in the foreground right; a gilt band to the foot rim, to interior and exterior of lip; the saucer with a sepia and olive landscape painted in the centre, of a castle on a hill beyond a river (or lake); a plain gilt band inside the lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31174
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 1895
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.1
diam
(cm): 8.8
l(cm) handle to lip:10.6
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4 3/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 13.7
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
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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