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Cup and saucer
Tournai Porcelain Factory (porcelain factory, founded 1750 by François Joseph
Peterinck)
Cup, soft-paste porcelain, very short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides moulded with fine spiral reeding, twisted loop handle; decorated in underglaze blue with to the front of the exterior body a Chinese-style flowering shrub, a dotted blue border around the exterior lip-rim, a blue line around the foot-rim, the handle picked out in blue. Saucer, soft-paste porcelain, short cylindrical foot-rim and rounded sides, the interior sides moulded with fine spiral reeding; decorated in underglaze blue with to the centre of the well a Chinese-style flowering shrub, a dotted blue border around the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36027
Creation/Production
Tournai Porcelain Factory
Date: 1763-1775
Acquisition
Gift, 14/2/1921
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.2
diam
(cm): 6.4
Width
(cm): 8.5
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.7
diam
(cm): 13.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
glaze
Location
In store
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