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Cup, tea and saucer
Cup and saucer, hybrid paste porcelain with a pale buff translucency; cup with rounded sides and loop handle; saucer set on a straight sided foot rim curving into deep rounded spreading sides; both transfer printed with the 'Kingfisher' pattern and filled in with enamels - a blue and pink plumaged kingfisher perched on a tree of stylised peonies in pink and blue, with dark olive foliage; gilt lip to cup and saucer, gilt edge and foliate motif to the handle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34241
Acquisition
Gift, 24/5/1937
Given by S.M. Steele & R. Garnett
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.8
diam
(cm): 8.4
l(cm) handle to lip:10.1
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 14.1
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hybrid-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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