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Toilet pot and cover
Toilet pot, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, cylindrical sides with spreading lip-rim, round domed cover with to the top an elaborate pinecone finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the toilet pot and to either side of the top of the cover Italianate landscapes with trees, buildings and distant hills, gilt edges to the lip-rim of the toilet pot and the rim of the cover, the finial picked out in gilt. The rim of the cover slightly chipped.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35842
Creation/Production
Capodimonte Porcelain Factory
Date: 1750-1755
Acquisition
Gift, 27/9/1919
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.5
diam
(cm): 8.5
Height
(in): 4
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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