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Toilet pot and cover
Toilet pot, soft-paste porcelain, rounded foot-rim, cylindrical sides, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a pear with leaves and a branch; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the toilet pot a panoramic landscape with mythological figures riding fabulous sea creatures and in the distance Naples and Vesuvius, the cover painted with three small European birds, gilt lines around the foot-rim and liprim of the toilet pot and the rim of the cover, the pear finial painted in oranges, yellows, browns and greens. A chip to the lip-rim of the toilet pot.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35839
Creation/Production
Capodimonte Porcelain Factory
Date: 1745-1750
Acquisition
Gift, 27/9/1919
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.7
diam
(cm): 7.6
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
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
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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