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Cup, cabinet
Cabinet cup, soft-paste porcelain; set on three paw feet, with a tapering cylindrical body, flaring at lip; high scroll handle, closed above the rim and centred by a patera, and terminating with a moulded mask; painted in polychrome enamels on the front with a panel of a flower bouquet on a brown ground; around rest of body a thick gilt line with a wide gilt anthemion and scroll border above, and a gilt foliate and beaded swag border below, and inside lip; gilt feet, handle, and lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31353
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 18/9/1923
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.9
diam
(cm): 9.1
l(cm) handle to lip:11
l(cm)
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4 5/16
l(in)
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
turned
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
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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