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Dish, dessert
Dish, shell-shaped, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain, with a yellowish green translucency; standing on a straight sided foot rim curving into rounded sides; lobed lip with four large and five small lobes, and one larger pointed lobe with moulded ridges; grooved cavetto; painted with an Imari style pattern, a wide border divided into four segments, two with a red vermicelli pattern and a stylised red and gilt sunflower on an underglaze blue ground, between two panels of red flowers with green, underglaze blue and gilt foliage on a white ground; an inner pale red border and a central red, underglaze blue and gilt stylised flower head; gilt lip, and lip moulding high-lighted in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33923
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 16/12/1986
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.2
Length
(cm): 20.1
Width
(cm): 19.8
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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