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Basin
Basin, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior sides two landscapes showing shipping on water with stone towered buildings and small figures, to the interior bottom of the basin a leaf sprig in green enamel which has mostly worn off, a gilt line around the foot-rim, a gilt dentil edge to the exterior lip-rim. The foot-rim and lip-rim chipped.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35646
Creation/Production
Zürich Porcelain Factory
Date: 1770-1780
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7.2
diam
(cm): 17.7
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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