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Dish, dessert

Swansea China Works
Unknown

Round dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a very slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot rim, cruciform, moulded in four large and four small lobes, painted in the centre with a large pink rose, decorated below the rim with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between two gilt lines. Two pad marks by foot rim.

Dessert set, Swansea China Works
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33724

Creation/Production

Swansea China Works
Unknown
Date: 1816-1817 –

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund

Measurements

Height (cm): 4.4
diam (cm): 23.4
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 9

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store

Categories

Porslen Cymru | Welsh porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Awaiting publication online (Applied Art)
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