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Cup
Cup, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, high rounded sides, loop handle with foliate moulding at the terminals; around the middle of the exterior body swags of flowers finely painted in polychrome enamels, around the upper and lower body undulating borders of bleu-celeste with gilt foliate edges, a very worn gilt line around the foot-rim, a gilt dentil edge to the lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35916
Acquisition
Bequest, 1898
Rhoddwyd gan / Bequeathed by James Pyke Thompson, 1898
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.2
diam
(cm): 7.7
Width
(cm): 10.2
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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