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Tea bowl and saucer
Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea bowl simple hemispherical shape, standing on a shallow footring, flared sides, everted lip; decorated in polychrome enamels, the side with an insect with puce head and fore wings, brown rear wings and grey banded thorax, above a band of foliage in greens and brown, opposite a spray of foliage in a similar palette, gilt line at lip and foot. The saucer also standing on a shallow footring, spreading body, everted lip, decorated in the centre with an insect with a blue head and rear wings, brown fore wings and a grey banded thorax above three sprays of foliage, gilt line at rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30073
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.5
Depth
(cm): 7.9
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.6
Depth
(cm): 13
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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