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Plate, dessert
Swansea China Works
(Decorator)
Unknown
(Decorator)
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot, plain everted rim, painted in the centre with a purple and white peony and a red and yellow peony (Paeonia), the rim decorated 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 (the gilding worn).
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33745
Creation/Production
1816-1817 / 1816-1820
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Decorator
Period:
1816-1817
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 23.3
Height
(in): 1 1/4
diam
(cm): 9 3/16
Material
Soft-paste porcelain
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