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Cup, tea and saucer
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.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 37042
Creation/Production
Sèvres
Date: 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
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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