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Muffin-dish
Muffin dish and cover, greyish-blue hard-paste porcelain with a slight brownish translucency, circular dish standing on a shallow foot rim, bowl-shaped with sides curving to a plain everted rim, shallow domed cover with a collared bead knop; both dish and cover are decorated with an underglaze blue ground reserved with two red peonies and with a red and yellow flower amid realistically painted foliage, the edges lined in gold, and with gilt sprays of leaves, narrow gilt band at rims, upper part of knop only is gilded.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30345
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/10/1991
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.5
Depth
(cm): 19
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(in): 7
Height
(cm): 5.1
Depth
(cm): 15.4
Height
(in): 2
Depth
(in): 6
Height
(cm): 9.4
Depth
(cm): 19
Height
(in): 3
Depth
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hybrid-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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