Tea cup, soft-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides, scroll handle; painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior sides scattered sprays of flowers, a gilt line and a blue line with flashes of gilt around the lip-rim, a further blue line with flashes of gilt around the foot-rim, the handle picked out in gilt.
Saucer, soft-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; painted in polychrome enamels with to the well three sprays of flowers, a gilt dentil border and blue line with flashes of gilt around the rim.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Sèvres
Period: 1760-1780
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.4
diam
(cm): 6.1
Width
(cm): 7.9
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(cm): 12
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
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Assembled
Forming
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Enamelled
Decoration
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Gilded
Decoration
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Glazed
Decoration
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Material
Soft-paste porcelain