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Butter-dish
Butter dish and cover, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain, with a pale greenish translucency; standing on a deep tapered foot rim with a straight everted lip, centre shallow cylindrical dish, slightly raised cover with acanthus leaf moulding encircling a pineapple finial; rim of saucer, exterior of dish, and cover, all painted with three sprays of stylised flowers including a 'bearded' tulip between sprigs; gilt scalloped lips, gilt finial and gilt detail to moulding.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34014
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1825
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.3
diam
(cm): 18.5
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
wheel-thrown
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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