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Dish, dessert
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Shell-shaped dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain; standing on a tapering footrim, steep sided with alternating lobes (four large and five small) with ridge-moulded pointed lip; London-decorated in Canton enamel style, the border with panels of birds reserved on a dry-blue ground with prunus blossom, gilt band around rim, gilding to embossed shell design on lip, gilt band around centre with inner band of lined triangles interspersed with five leaves.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34360
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Acquisition
Purchase, 19/10/1999
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.1
Length
(cm): 21.6
Width
(cm): 19.5
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilt
Location
In store
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