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Dish, dessert
Dessert dish, round, Swansea 'duck egg' paste, greenish translucency, slight green tinge to the glaze, heavily potted, prominent foot rim, cruciform moulding of four large and four small lobes; centre painted in polychrome enamels with a basket woven in lattice and vertical wicker, overflowing with garden flowers, on a background of earth, grass and flowering plants; cavetto with a border of scrolled and seeded gilding, rim painted with three butterflies within a gilt dentil border.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32286
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.4
diam
(cm): 23.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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