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Cup, hard-paste porcelain, inset base, cylindrical sides, loop handle with a moulded leaf to the shoulder; finely painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with around the centre of the exterior body two Chinese-style garden scenes with figures, rocks and trees, around the upper and lower body borders of scrolled and dotted ornament in puce, blue and gilt between two gilt lines, the handle picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35949
Creation/Production
Sèvres
LEVÉ, D.
Date: 1780-1790 –
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.9
diam
(cm): 5.9
Width
(cm): 7.8
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
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
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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