Tray with two cups and saucers, soft-paste porcelain, the tray a wide rounded and lobed triangle hollow underneath with vertical sides and roughly concentric oval ridges on the upper side, each cup bell-shaped with small kick in the base and indented side where the tall upright handle is applied, each handle with one hollow face and roughly scrolled top, each saucer circular with a flat base, flared profile and three notches in the rim; all freely enamelled in bright green, blue, yellow, pink and purple enamels and gilded in the same manner.
Betty Woodman is one of the best-known and most highly respected ceramic artists. Since 1987, Woodman has worked periodically at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres in France, where this piece was made.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Artist
Role: Maker
Place: Sèvres
Period: 1989
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 24/1/2012
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.1
Width
(cm): 34.6
Depth
(cm): 22.2
Height
(cm): 12.1
Width
(cm): 9
Depth
(cm): 9.8
Height
(cm): 12
Width
(cm): 9.5
Depth
(cm): 9.6
Height
(cm): 2.2
Width
(cm): 11.7
Depth
(cm): 11.5
Height
(cm): 2.6
Width
(cm): 11.8
Depth
(cm): 11.4
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
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Modelled
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Manipulated
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Hand-built
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Assembled
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Glazed
Decoration
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Enamelled
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Gilded
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Material
Soft-paste porcelain
