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Dish cover
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Dish cover, from a muffin dish, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze. Domed with a fluted and collared bead finial. Decorated with a gilt band to the lip, below a broad band of unevely applied blue-green ground an ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with three oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads, the upper part with a circular reserve containing a bouquet of flowers around the base of the gilded finial. The gilding generally rubbed.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32309
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.2
diam
(cm): 16.3
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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