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Cup, coffee
Coffee cup, soaprock porcelain, short foot-rim, high cuving sides and plain loop handle; transfer-printed in underglaze blue with around the exterior sides the 'Willow Nankin' pattern, an oriental-style pattern with an island and buildings to the right, a willow tree in the foreground, a small island to the top left and two birds flying above, around the interior lip-rim a cell border with a dagger pattern frieze below, gilt lines around the foot-rim and lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 37117
Creation/Production
Caughley
Date: 1780 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.5
diam
(cm): 6.2
Width
(cm): 8.7
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soaprock porcelain
Location
In store
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