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Cup, cabinet and saucer, miniature
Miniature cabinet cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain; cup standing on a straight sided foot rim, indented above, curved sides flaring at lip; high scroll loop handle, closed above the rim with leaf moulding; saucer on a tapered foot rim, and straight spreading sides with an everted lip; both transfer printed in black enamel all over and inside cup lip, with a honey-comb style design of circles, reserved with scalloped cartouches outlined in gilt, of pink flowers and green foliage, between polychrome flowers, filled in with enamels; gilt handle and gilt lip to cup and saucer.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33948
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.3
diam
(cm): 5.3
l(cm) handle to lip:6.5
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
l(in) handle to lip:2 9/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 1.5
diam
(cm): 10.4
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
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
In store
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