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Cup, tea and saucer

Producer: Swansea China Works

Teacup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; the cup standing on a straight sided foot rim, indented above, curved sides flaring at lip; high closed c-scrolled handle; saucer on a rounded foot rim, slightly curved spreading sides; both decorated with set pattern 164; transfer-printed and filled in enamels with the Mandarin pattern, in the 'famille rose' palette - a village scene of a seated mandarin and others in front of an oriental house; a gilt scrolled border with small cartouches of landscapes in iron red alternating with larger cartouches of birds perched on branches, against a blue sky, above purple trees; gilt band to the cup's foot rim and gilt handle.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 30985

Creation/Production

Swansea China Works
Role: Production
Date: 1816-1826

Acquisition

Bequest, 10/12/1953

Measurements

Height: 7.6 cupcm
diam(cm):9.5
l(cm) handle to lip:11.1
Height: 2.8 saucercm
diam(cm):14.7

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding

Location

Gallery 17 : Case 05

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Categories

Porslen Cymru | Welsh porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art
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